Art Quote by Holland Cotter

“We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little ‘sins’ to the level of cosmic significance!”

— Richard Dawkins

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

— Park Dietz

Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing…

— Mary H.K. Choi

“I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing." "Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said. "My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard.”

— John Green

“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with it.”

— R.W.L. Moberly

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection…

— Thomas Cole

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the…

— John Steinbeck

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not…

— Hans Arp

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

— Robert Bateman

“Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature’s ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.”

— Umberto Eco

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

— Pierre Bonnard