Best nature & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”

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Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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Author:Claude Monet

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”

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Author:Beck

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

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Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

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Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

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Author:Paul Cezanne

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”

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Author:Rembrandt

“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”

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Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

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