Back-to-nature Quote by Nâzım Hikmet

“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

— Paul Gauguin

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live…

— Jack Kornfield

“I wonder now why humans hate the map of their life that appears on their own bodies, when a tree like this, or a…

— Lucinda Riley

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's…

— George Eliot

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most basic truths:…

— David Gordon

“Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting , which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as drunkards sing…

— Carlo Carra

“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph.…

— Veta Louise Simmons

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized…

— Ala Bashir

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“Life is an empty canvas, we have to paint it every moment of life”

— elvis laren