Art Quote by Paul Cezanne

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic…

— Amedeo Modigliani

“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

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied…

— Paul Klee

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

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study…

— Ben Shahn

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

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

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in…

— Jean Dubuffet

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche