Art Quote by Carl Linnaeus

“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species,…

— Ayn Rand

“Taxonomy, also called systematics, is the science-based hierarchical classification of the world's species. The area had traditionally been an obscure academic discipline dominated by…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

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

— Kafu Nagai

In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic…

— Amedeo Modigliani

“As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure,…

— Charles Darwin

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Species that evolved from a common ancestor are bunched together under the heading ‘genus’ (plural genera).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

— Bertrand Russell