Art Quote by Aristotle

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

— John Stuart Mill

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

— Aristotle

Great art picks up where nature ends.

— Marc Chagall

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

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

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious…

— Oscar Wilde

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

— Franz Marc

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to…

— Hippocrates

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by…

— Henry Moore

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt