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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
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 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
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
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
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
— J.G. Holland
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the airOf mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
— David Hume
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
— Meyer Schapiro
