Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

— Soseki Natsume

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden…

— Auguste Rodin

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that…

— Henry Abbey

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

— Henry Moore

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

For man is by nature an artist.

— Rabindranath Tagore