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The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. — Josef Albers

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

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

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

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

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

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — W. H. Auden

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

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

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

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

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. — John Stuart Mill

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

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

Art is the child of Nature. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. — Paracelsus

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

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

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle.

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

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

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. — Izaak Walton

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. — Michel De Montaigne

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas

Everything in art is but a copy of nature. — Seneca The Younger

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. — E.L. Doctorow

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. — Heinrich Heine

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. — Francois Fenelon

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them. — Marcel Proust

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: 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

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana

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

A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws. — Dean Koontz

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

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. — Francis Bacon

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

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

The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up. — Aristotle.

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

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

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

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

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