Art Quote by Albrecht Durer

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

— Kafu Nagai

Nature constantly imitates art.

— Oscar Wilde

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's…

— Paul Gauguin

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

— Gustave Moreau

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

— Joseph Addison

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

— Carl Sagan

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

— William Ernest Henley

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot