Design Quote by Frances Arnold

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

— Georges Braque

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

— Jeremiah Brent

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,

— Elsa Peretti

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are…

— Neri Oxman

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

— Frederick Franck

There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but…

— Paul Cezanne

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

— Jacques Lipchitz

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

— John James Audubon