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Nature Quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
- If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers…
- In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You…
- Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not…
- White does not exist in nature.
- It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
- To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
- You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
- If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets…
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