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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

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

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.