Affection Quote by William Wordsworth

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

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

— Georges Braque

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

— Gustave Courbet

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives…

— Victor Cousin

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing…

— Boris Pasternak

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

“Nature has painted beauty across the earth; may human hearts forever reflect its grace.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

— Frank Lloyd Wright