Art Quote by 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

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

— Ernst Gombrich

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

— Paul Gauguin

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning,…

— Henri Matisse

“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may…

— Kahlil Gibran

“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

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

— Aristotle

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

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