Accepting Quote by Alain LeRoy Locke

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened…

— Pema Chodron

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

— Victor Hugo

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

— Walter Savage Landor

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

— Aristotle

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

— Flora Thompson

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel…

— Paul Cezanne

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

— Samuel Daniel

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

— Anonymous

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

— Anna Deavere Smith

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet,…

— Rick Rubin

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

— William Shakespeare

“In the fall nature informs of its artistic side. It continues to confirm the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.”

— Nature is art Fall season Art informs

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes