Art Quote by Joseph Campbell

“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...”

— John Geddes

“Like stories, art isn’t something that we see exactly as it is. Stories and art are mirrors, reflections of who we are and who…

— Christa Avampato

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who…

— Darryl Anka

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

— Jennifer Stone

“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may…

— Kahlil Gibran

... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make…

— Frederick Sommer

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

— Ernst Gombrich

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a…

— Paul Claudel