Andre Bazin Quotes

Art is the child of Nature.

Art is a sense of magic.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

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.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Land really is the best art.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.