Beauty Quote by Alexander Pope

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

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

— Paul Cezanne

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking…

— James Elkins

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting…

— Irving Stone

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro