Dictionary Quote by Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness…

— Anonymous

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user…

— Eva Figes

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

— Nelson Shanks

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a…

— Pat Connid

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

— Jean Renoir

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

— Jon Hopkins

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

— Plotinus

...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what…

— William Crookes