Art Quote by J. G. Holland

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

— Anonymous

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

— Swami Vivekananda

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

— Ernst Gombrich

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact…

— Georges Vantongerloo

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

— George Sand

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

— Anonymous

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

— Alexander Pope

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

— Pablo Picasso

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

— Kafu Nagai