In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and…

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

— Sophia Loren

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

— Alexander Theroux

My art completes my life.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

— John Updike

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a…

— Paul Claudel

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

— Soseki Natsume

Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention

— Richard Franck

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,…

— Steve Martin

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp