Beautiful Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

— Vincent Van Gogh

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I choose to paint beauty.

— Igor Babailov

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

— Jackson Pollock

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian