Copies Quote by Paul Cezanne

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

— Georges Braque

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

— Paul Cezanne

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,

— Elsa Peretti

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

— Frances Arnold

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

— Frederick Franck

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From…

— Henri Matisse

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

— John James Audubon

Replicate not only science but also the humanity of it.

— Anonymous

“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is…

— William Carlos Williams

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

— Gertrude Stein