Art Quote by Alexander Pope

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature,…

— Alexander Pope

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;…

— John Dryden

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may…

— Kahlil Gibran

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

— Thomas Browne

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

“All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.”

— Matsuo Bashō