Abstract Quote by Meyer Schapiro

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

— Kafu Nagai

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

— Anton Webern

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

— Daniel Bell

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact…

— Georges Vantongerloo

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest…

— Albrecht Durer

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

— Brice Marden

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