To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Nature engenders the science of painting.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.