Nature And Art Quotes - Page 2

• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  God, Art, Nature

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

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• If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Moving, People

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Dear God

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• 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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Thinking, Fool

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Art, Grandchildren, Able

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.

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  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.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Men, Ends

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.94

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• All nature wears one universal grin.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Science, Garden

  'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 1

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Men, Soul

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• 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 H. Mead

  Appreciation, Art, Attitude

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

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

  William Cowper

  Nature, Travel, Names

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

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• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Missing

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

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• 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.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Essentials, Novelty

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Nature, Theory

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• 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

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Art, Desire, Movement

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• Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Fashion, Artist, Essentials

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• 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.

  Elihu Burritt

  Beautiful, Art, Order

  Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72

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• The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Reading, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.398, Harvard University Press

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Flesh

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• 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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Art, Nature, Science

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• 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.

  Thomas Cole

  Art, Nature, Perfection

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• 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.

  William Penn

  Art, Work, Grateful

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.127

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