Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

— Oscar Wilde

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source…

— Eugene Carriere

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never…

— John Herschel

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

— Aristotle

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle