Beautiful Quote by John Updike

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

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

— Joaquin Sorolla

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today,…

— William Baziotes

“When you understand that the perceiver and the thing perceived are in relation, and that the higher vision will always lift in field what…

— Paul Selig

“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the only consolation…

— W.G. Sebald

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a…

— Lawren Harris

“By assembling the mosaic image of our own mosaic of “truth” (our own version of the “truth”) from our accumulated knowledge and through comparisons…

— Frank M. Wanderer

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

— Richard B. Garnett

Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice…

— Judith Sargent Murray

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There…

— Francis Ford Coppola