Color Quote by Henri Matisse

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

— Gustave Moreau

“To live in harmony with nature, we must know how to sing the same song as nature. To do that, we must understand nature.…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Piet Oudolf

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jacques Lipchitz

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;…

— John Dryden

When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Frederick Franck

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface,…

— Paul Cezanne