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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. -- Victor Hugo
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? -- Vincent Van Gogh
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Victor Hugo
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
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
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? -- Vincent Van Gogh
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
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. -- Malcolm de Chazal
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
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. -- Yoko Ono
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. -- Susanne Langer
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. -- Robert Delaunay
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. -- Steven Pinker
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
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
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. -- Camille Paglia
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
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
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
Nature constantly imitates art. -- Oscar Wilde
What is art? Nature concentrated. -- Honore de Balzac
Art is stronger than Nature -- Titian
Art is the child of Nature. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art takes nature as its model. -- Aristotle
Art is man added to Nature. -- Francis Bacon
Art is but imitation of nature. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Nature is the art of God. -- Dante Alighieri
All of nature is God's art. -- Dante Alighieri
Art, like Nature, has her monsters -- Oscar Wilde
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. -- Mason Cooley
We by art unteach what Nature taught. -- John Dryden
Choice and chance structure art and nature. -- Frederick Sommer
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. -- Paul Cezanne
Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. -- Thomas Overbury
Great art picks up where nature ends. -- Marc Chagall
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All art is an imitation of nature. -- Seneca the Elder
Art is the right hand of Nature. -- Friedrich Schiller
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. -- John Dryden
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. -- Walter Savage Landor
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. -- Philip James Bailey
Art brings out the grand lines of nature. -- Antoine Bourdelle
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. -- Dejan Stojanovic
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. -- William Shakespeare
Western art has a certain relationship to nature. -- Brice Marden
All nature is but art unknown to thee. -- Alexander Pope
Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. -- Philip James Bailey
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
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. -- Thomas Carlyle
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. -- Honore de Balzac
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. -- Aristotle
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. -- Antoni Gaudi
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. -- Seneca the Younger
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
Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. -- Penelope Hobhouse
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. -- Holland Cotter
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. -- Oscar Wilde
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -- Louisa May Alcott
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. -- Josef Albers
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. -- Aristotle
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. -- Pablo Picasso
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. -- Camille
Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. -- Og Mandino
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. -- Susanne Langer
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
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. -- Thomas Browne
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. -- Richard Jefferies
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. -- John Updike
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? -- Charles Baudelaire
Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature. -- Alois Podhajsky
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
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. -- Robert Herrick
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. -- Virginia Woolf
Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. -- John Stuart Mill
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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
My life is a work of art and nature is my temple! -- Maurice Spees
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. -- Northrop Frye

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