Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the… — Victor Hugo 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
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“Men have unlearned the ability to recognize the godly in themselves and in things: nature and art, family and state have only… — Hans Cornelius Copy Share Image
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Seriously, we should start taxing churches and have tax-exempt places for worship and study of nature and art. Charge ten bucks for… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
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