Nature Quote by René Descartes

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and are most…

— Roland Barthes

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

“And then there are colors. The truth is that the brain knows far less about colors than one might suppose. It sees more or…

— José Saramago

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is false.”

— Giacomo Casanova

I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography,…

— Chitra Ganesh

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

“,Coloring is not just art—it's therapy for the soul. Escape into a world of nature, where every stroke brings peace, and every shade tells…

— James Butcher

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

— Yann Martel

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young