Quotes for All
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
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature Auguste Rodin
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
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. Rembrandt