Ambition Quote by Joaquin Sorolla

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

— Richard P. Feynman

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission…

— John Updike

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…

— Alexander Pope

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

— William Morris Hunt

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she would compel…

— Victor Hugo

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not…

— Ezra Pound

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached…

— Milton Avery

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another!

— Kemis Khan

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our…

— Stephen Jay Gould