Nature Art Quotes

What is art? Nature concentrated.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

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

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

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

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

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

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

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.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Nature constantly imitates art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.