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Nature engenders the science of painting. -- Robert Delaunay
Painting is by nature a luminous language. -- Robert Delaunay
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. -- Paul Cezanne
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. -- Nigel Dennis
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. -- Edward Hopper
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. -- Edward Hopper
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. -- Theodore Robinson
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. -- Vincent Van Gogh
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. -- Hans Hofmann
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. -- Miguel Nicolelis
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. -- Larry Poons
Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose. -- Catherine Hardwicke
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of. -- Jerry Yang
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument. -- William Morris Hunt
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. -- Eric Kandel
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. -- Thomas Kincade
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. -- Keegan-Michael Key
The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature. -- Robert Irwin
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. -- Ray Comfort
Nature engenders the science of painting -- Robert Delaunay
We may call painting the grandchild of nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. -- Rembrandt
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. -- John Ruskin
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. -- Charles Sheeler
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant. -- Rosanne Cash
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. -- Kazimir Malevich
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. -- Pablo Picasso

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