Answers Quote by Joshua Reynolds

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this.…

— Joshua Reynolds

All art is an imitation of nature.

— Seneca the Elder

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;…

— John Dryden

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

— Stanley Kubrick

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

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature,…

— Alexander Pope

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

— John Hersey

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

— E. F. Schumacher