I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I…

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

We cannot fail in following nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

— James Dean

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again

— John Zerzan

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will…

— Rajneesh

“Patiently following after nature ultimately enables us, in Descartes’ words, to “make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature” (PWD 1:142–43).”

— Lee Braver

“Following nature means following the facts. It means getting the facts about the physical and social world we inhabit, and the facts about our…

— Lawrence C. Becker

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than…

— Claude Monet

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

— Claude Monet

I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer

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

— Marcel Duchamp