Beauty Quote by John Constable

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject…

— Walter J. Phillips

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but…

— Henry David Thoreau

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive…

— John Dyer

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

— Umberto Eco

“The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I…

— Paul Cézanne

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles

“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ...…

— Henry David Thoreau