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[New Mexico is] the only landscape . . . where Nature is as aesthetic as Art; the only landscape that can compete with the great painters. — Leo Stein

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. — Dante Alighieri

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. — Albrecht Durer

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery. — Erica Goros

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself. — Umberto Eco

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal. — Invader

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. — Nathan Fillion

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. — Frank Moore Colby

I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares
With great creating nature. — William Shakespeare

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin

The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show - to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe. — Ayn Rand

Nature is a haunted house
but Art
is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet

Art is the right hand of Nature. — Friedrich Schiller

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. — Edwin Forrest

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. — Richard Wilbur

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. — Claude Monet

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. — Steve Lacy

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough - see point one. — Douglas Adams

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. — Holly Black

It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to want to put your horse in another man's stall. — David Gilbert

All art is an imitation of nature. — Seneca The Elder

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. — Andy Warhol

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. — John Burroughs

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) — Charles Negre

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. — George Herbert Mead

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art. — Bette Midler

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. — Edward Abbey

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. — Philip Jose Farmer

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. — Holland Cotter

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God. — Plato

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley

The best man can do is imitate nature with art. While nature can devour art and man. — A.E. Marling

For the nature of women is closely allied to art — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art is the child of Nature. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. — D.T. Suzuki

Art is not about beauty, art is an expression. — Vikram Roy

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws. — Ron Brackin

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. — J.G. Holland

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature. — Joe Abercrombie

Land really is the best art. — Andy Warhol

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. — Helen Rowland

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human. — Howard Morphy

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. — Amit Kalantri

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water. — Lyonel Feininger

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. — Thomas B. Macaulay

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. — Charles Tart

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. — Louis Nizer

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself. — W. H. Auden

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature. — Immanuel Kant

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All art is but imitation of nature. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. — Marilyn French

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. — Camille

It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. — Joseph Kosuth

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour. — Paul Klee

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. — Seneca The Younger

Nature is a divine art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. — Thomas Carlyle

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. — Paul Gauguin