Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature
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.
I've lost the will to paint literally. I don't see the point in worrying away with a paintbrush trying to reproduce a literal photographic texture like cloth or skin. Paint is best at being paint. Paint can never be as perfect as nature when it is trying to imitate nature.It's a lost cause. Paint can only be as beautiful as nature when it is nature, when it is it's own texture. Marks on paper have their own beauty, and it is this slipping from the literal world into the world of abstract qualities that I try to achieve in my work. If I need a shirt to look like a shirt I'll scan it into my computer. If I want a shirt to feel like the wind, or like a constricting skin, or angry, or like a consoling embrace, then maybe it should be painted or drawn...
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.'
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures.
When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
White does not exist in nature.
The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Nature wants children to be children before men . . . Childhood has its own seeing, thinkin and feeling.
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
I want meadows red in tone and trees painted in blue. Nature has no imagination.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.
