Art Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Nature
“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source… — Eugene Carriere Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
