Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Polyface Farm is built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
