Art Quote by Robert Fortune

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...

— Seneca the Younger

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

— Anonymous

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

— Anonymous

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

— Honore de Balzac

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render…

— Paul Cezanne

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious…

— Oscar Wilde

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

— Alison Lurie

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

— Albert Renger-Patzsch