Art Quote by Washington Irving

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but…

— Henry David Thoreau

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 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

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

— Terry Tempest Williams

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Baltasar Gracian

Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to…

— Horace Mann

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

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

— Roger Scruton

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to…

— Hippocrates