Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

— Frank Lloyd Wright

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

— William Ernest Henley

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the…

— Auguste Rodin

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false…

— Edgar Degas

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities (sure enough,…

— Clark Blaise