Art Quote by Ansel Adams

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

— Kafu Nagai

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

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

— Gustave Moreau

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

— Pablo Picasso

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to…

— Edouard Vuillard

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

— Henry Moore

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

— Swami Vivekananda

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

— Marianne Williamson

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact…

— Georges Vantongerloo

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the…

— Neri Oxman