Art Quote by Henri Matisse

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The…

— Henry James

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted…

— Auguste Rodin

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel…

— Paul Cezanne

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

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

— Paul Gauguin

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing…

— Joaquin Sorolla

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle