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Nature Quotes by John Constable
- Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as…
- The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the…
- When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen…
- The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of…
- The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
- When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater