Canvas Quote by David Hockney

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

— Greg Graffin

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

— Sid Grossman

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

— Robert Wilson

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

— John Tiffany

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

— Claude Monet

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more…

— Robert Motherwell