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Nature Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
- Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many…
- Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will…
- I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;…
- A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the…
- No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,…
- The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end…
- While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must…
- You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without…
- By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the…
- Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but…
- The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all…
- The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes…
- Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye...
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