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Choice and chance structure art and nature. -- Frederick Sommer
Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. -- Penelope Hobhouse
My life is a work of art and nature is my temple! -- Maurice Spees
If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win. -- Robert Bateman
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. -- Francis Bacon
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
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite? -- Terry Tempest Williams
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite~? -- Terry Tempest Williams
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation. -- Samuel Johnson
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives. -- Edward Gibbon
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others. -- Thomas Huxley
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. -- Malcolm de Chazal
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. -- Yoko Ono
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. -- Philip James Bailey
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. -- Robert Delaunay
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. -- Susanne Langer
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. -- Steven Pinker
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. -- Childe Hassam
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. -- Jimmy Carter
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. -- Elie Metchnikoff
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. -- Billy Al Bengston
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. -- William Ernest Henley
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 contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. -- Auguste Rodin
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. -- Corin Nemec
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. -- Thomas Edward Brown
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. -- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. -- Max Bill
Nature constantly imitates art. -- Oscar Wilde
What is art? Nature concentrated. -- Honore de Balzac
Art is stronger than Nature -- Titian
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. -- Mason Cooley
Art, like Nature, has her monsters -- Oscar Wilde
Art is but imitation of nature. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Art is the child of Nature. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art takes nature as its model. -- Aristotle
Art is man added to Nature. -- Francis Bacon
All of nature is God's art. -- Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God. -- Dante Alighieri
We by art unteach what Nature taught. -- John Dryden
Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. -- Thomas Overbury
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. -- Paul Cezanne
Great art picks up where nature ends. -- Marc Chagall
Art is the right hand of Nature. -- Friedrich Schiller
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All art is an imitation of nature. -- Seneca the Elder
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. -- Dejan Stojanovic
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. -- William Shakespeare
Art brings out the grand lines of nature. -- Antoine Bourdelle
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. -- Philip James Bailey
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. -- Walter Savage Landor
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. -- John Dryden
Western art has a certain relationship to nature. -- Brice Marden
All nature is but art unknown to thee. -- Alexander Pope
Art is nature as seen through a temperament. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape. -- Franz Grillparzer
Art will never be able to exist without nature. -- Pierre Bonnard
But what is art other than revealing human nature? -- Marina Abramovic
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. -- Victor Hugo
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. -- Richard Wilbur
Everything in art is but a copy of nature. -- Seneca the Younger
Art does not copy nature - it suggests it. -- Ernst Gombrich
The course of Nature is the art of God. -- Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God -- Edward Young
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. -- Philip James Bailey
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. -- Thomas Carlyle
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. -- Aristotle
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. -- Honore de Balzac
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. -- Antoni Gaudi
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. -- Paul Gauguin
For the nature of women is closely allied to art -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. -- Antoni Gaudi
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom." -- Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. -- Josef Albers
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -- Louisa May Alcott
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. -- Pablo Picasso
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. -- Susanne Langer
Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. -- Holland Cotter
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. -- Aristotle
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. -- John Updike
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. -- Camille
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. -- Thomas Browne
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. -- Og Mandino
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. -- Seneca the Younger
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. -- Richard Jefferies
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature. -- Gao Xingjian
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. -- Oscar Wilde
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. -- John Burroughs
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? -- Charles Baudelaire
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. -- Patti Smith
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. -- Virginia Woolf
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. -- Robert Herrick
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. -- William Morris Hunt
Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. -- John Stuart Mill
Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature. -- Alois Podhajsky
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. -- Thomas Browne
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. -- Northrop Frye
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. -- Northrop Frye
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. -- Samuel Daniel
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. -- Amit Kalantri
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. -- E. F. Schumacher
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. -- Friedrich Schiller
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. -- Joseph Kosuth
art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ... -- George Sand

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