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title: "15 Imitate Nature Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 15 Imitate Nature quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Imitate Nature sayings and thoughts."
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> [Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/good-painters-imitate-nature-bad-ones-spew-it-up/)

[Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/)

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> [Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/devices-which-in-some-curious-new-way-imitate-nature-are-attractive/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/good-painters-imitate-nature-but-bad-ones-spew-it-up/)

[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/)

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> [The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cage/the-function-of-art-is-to-imitate-nature-in-her-manner-of-operation/)

[John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cage/)

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> [Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-matisse/color-was-not-given-to-us-in-order-that-we-imitate-nature-it-was/)

[Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-matisse/)

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> [Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-matisse/color-was-not-given-to-us-in-order-that-we-should-imitate-nature-it/)

[Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-matisse/)

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> [Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/why-should-i-copy-this-owl-this-sea-urchin-why-should-i-try-to/)

[Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/)

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> [Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/biophilia-the-innate-pleasure-from-living-abundance-and-diversity-as/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/e-o-wilson-1348_abundance_biophilia-the-innate-pleasure-from-livin_616459.png)

> [We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/we-do-not-wish-to-imitate-nature-we-do-not-wish-to-reproduce-we-want/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

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> [Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/let-art-then-imitate-nature-find-what-she-desires-and-follow-as-she/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-carlos-williams/to-imitate-nature-involves-the-verb-to-do-to-copy-is-merely-to/)

[William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-carlos-williams/)

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> [“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlil-gibran/some-believe-that-art-is-the-imitation-of-nature-in-fact-nature-is-so/)

[Kahlil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kahlil-gibran/)

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> [Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/art-does-not-imitate-nature-but-founds-itself-on-the-study-of-nature/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/941/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron_accord_art-does-not-imitate-nature-but-founds-i_344131.jpg)

> [It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-justly-considered-as-the-greatest-excellency-of-art-to-imitate/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [“Polyface Farm is built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/polyface-farm-is-built-on-the-efficiencies-that-come-from-mimicking/)

[Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/)

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