Art Quote by Nelson Shanks

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

— Eugene Delacroix

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

— Gustave Moreau

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's…

— Paul Gauguin

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness…

— Anonymous

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

— Kafu Nagai

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

— Thomas Overbury

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

— J. G. Holland

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel