Nature Paint Quotes

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

— Alexander Pope

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

— Henri Rousseau

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

— Leon Battista Alberti