Quotes about Art
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
— Confucius
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
— Aristotle
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
— Pablo Picasso
All of nature is God's art.
— Dante Alighieri
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
— John Henry Newman
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
— William Hazlitt
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
— Victor Hugo
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
— Mark Twain
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn