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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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. — Aristotle.

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

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon

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

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. — Thomas Browne

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle — Joseph Campbell

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison

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

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

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

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. — Emil Nolde

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

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. — Olivia Newton-John

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

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

Art is the right hand of Nature. — Friedrich Schiller

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. — Friedrich Schiller

Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born. — Jacqueline Delange

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

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — John F. Carlsons

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

Nature is a divine art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls. — Marty Rubin

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature. — Alexis Carrel

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. — Beck

Sex is natural, but enjoying it's an art. — Marty Rubin

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. — Thomas Overbury

Colors are light's suffering and joy — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. — Joseph Mitchell

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. — George Inness

All of nature is God's art. — Dante Alighieri

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature. — John Connolly

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. — Philip James Bailey

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E.F. Schumacher

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

Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art. — Debasish Mridha

[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume

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

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

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

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. — Winston S. Churchill

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore De Balzac

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

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. — Edmund Burke

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

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

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

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 medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire

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

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

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

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

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

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art — Virginia Woolf

I see a sacred beautiful art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Open spaces sing to my heart
of the art of nature and the nature of art. — Jay Woodman

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

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Kahlil Gibran

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

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne

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