"To walk with nature as a poet is……" — Thomas Cole

"To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist."

— Thomas Cole

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16 Quotes by Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to…
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence.…
How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old…
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced…
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the…
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian…
The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial…
The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In…
Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a…
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity…

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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