Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by…

— Henry Moore

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's…

— Paul Gauguin

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the…

— Paul Valery

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

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

— Gustave Moreau

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

— Aristotle

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

— Anonymous

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

— Kafu Nagai

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Aristotle