Animal Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future…

— Paul Cezanne

Art is stronger than Nature

— Titian

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

— Odilon Redon

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

“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

Necessity is stronger far than art.

— Aeschylus

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

— Aristotle

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet,…

— Rick Rubin

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence…

— George Bernard Shaw

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

— Louisa May Alcott