Agree Quote by Charles Bartlett Johnson

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

— Alexander Pope

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“When nature fails, we turn to art.”

— Umberto Eco

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's…

— Paul Gauguin

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel…

— Paul Cezanne

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

— Pablo Picasso

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle