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  • Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

    Beauty   Art   Dear God  
  • Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

    "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.
  • Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

    Art   Men   Soul  
  • Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

    Love   Nature   Art  
    Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press
  • Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

    Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”
  • ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

    Art   Creativity   Enough  
    Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”
  • We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it

    Art   Desire   Movement  
  • A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

    Dream   Art   Advice  
    Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult
  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  • There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • Great art picks up where nature ends.

    Art   Ends   Artist  
  • People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

    Art   Law   People  
    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics
  • A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

    Art   Work   Grateful  
    William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.127
  • Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

    Art   Nature   Perfection  
  • I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    Nature   Men   Earth Day  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

    Art   Eye   Soul  
  • 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.

    "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.
  • All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.

    Beautiful   Art   Order  
    Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72
  • An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

    Artist   Effort   Mastery  
  • All nature wears one universal grin.

    Nature   Science   Garden  
    'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 1
  • The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

    Life   Beautiful   Art  
    Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press
  • What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

    Art   Thinking   Fool  
  • In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  • All art is but imitation of nature.

    "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.
  • Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

    Nature   Travel   Names  
    William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”
  • The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

    Art   Nature   Science  
  • Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

    "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.
  • For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

    Art   Nature   Missing  
    John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194
  • All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

    God   Art   Nature  
    Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)
  • Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media
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