Art Quotes

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

~ James Montgomery

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

~ Friedrich Engels

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

~ Robert Delaunay

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

~ Henry Moore

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

~ Paracelsus

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

~ Friedrich Schiller

All art is but imitation of nature.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

~ Max Bill

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great art picks up where nature ends.

~ Marc Chagall

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

~ Gustave Courbet

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

~ Thomas Guthrie

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

~ Susanne Langer

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

~ Auguste Rodin

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

~ Philip James Bailey

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

~ Alexander Pope

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

~ Steve Lacy

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

~ Pierre Bonnard

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

~ Olivia Newton-John

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

~ Malcolm De Chazal

Land really is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

~ Thomas Browne

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

~ Thomas Hardy

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

~ William Morris Hunt

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

~ W. H. Auden

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

~ Marilyn French

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

~ Izaak Walton

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

~ Samuel Daniel

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

~ Thomas Berger

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

~ H. L. Mencken

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

~ William Blake

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

~ Albert Einstein

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

~ Ray Bradbury

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

~ Paracelsus

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

~ Maurizio Seracini

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

~ Edward Thorndike

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

~ William Bernbach