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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
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
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
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
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
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
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
— Criss Jami
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
Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.
— Joe Abercrombie
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
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
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
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
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
— Arshile Gorky
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Art is the child of Nature.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
— Thomas Tredgold
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
— J.G. Holland
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
— Paracelsus
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
— Thomas Browne
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
— Honore De Balzac
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
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
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
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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
— Jimmy Carter
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
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
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
All art is an imitation of nature.
— Seneca The Elder
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
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
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
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