Art Quote by Giorgio Vasari

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence…

— Giorgio Vasari

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

— Anonymous

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Paul Gauguin

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source…

— Eugene Carriere

Nature constantly imitates art.

— Oscar Wilde

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

— Ernst Gombrich

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Art is the child of Nature.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow