Believe Quote by Paula Modersohn-Becker

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature.…

— Larry Poons

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Adolph Gottlieb

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

— Jackson Pollock

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of…

— E. J. Hughes

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty…

— Hilla von Rebay

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

— Claude Monet

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

— Winston Churchill

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable