Doe Quote by Piet Mondrian

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Kafu Nagai

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

— Gustave Moreau

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

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Adolph Gottlieb

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear bombs are…

— Derrick Jensen

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You…

— Ansel Adams

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu