I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied…

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

— Paul Cezanne

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of…

— Henry Fox Talbot

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

— Jacob Bronowski

“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and…

— Fisher Amelie

“I'd discovered that the sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and…

— Fisher Amelie

“publication can be reproduced or transmitted”

— Emily March

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Time should be reproduced and multiplied”

— Sunday Adelaja

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

— Zhuangzi

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

— Baruch Spinoza

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

— Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

“He heard the sound of waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with…

— Yukio Mishima

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

— Jacques Lipchitz