Art Quote by Hippocrates

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most…

— Hippocrates

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Gustave Moreau

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

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet,…

— Rick Rubin