Able Quote by Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

— Alessandro Michele

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today,…

— William Baziotes

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and…

— George Washington Carver

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached…

— Milton Avery

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

— Walter J. Phillips

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

— John James Audubon

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…

— Alexander Pope

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

— Paul Gauguin

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well…

— Henry David Thoreau