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Nature Quotes by Walter J. Phillips
- When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open,…
- Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
- A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart,…
- The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
- Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.
- It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently…
- Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually…
- It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
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