Imitate Nature Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in… — John Cage
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant… — Hans Arp
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the… — Samuel Hahnemann
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions. — Henri Matisse
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. — Vladimir Nabokov
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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