As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
All art is but imitation of nature.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.