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Nature Quotes by Auguste Rodin
- The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances…
- Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
- To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
- The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
- Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
- What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
- In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is…
- A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each…
- An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner…
- I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths…
- In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct…
- There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms,…
- To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an…
- Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle