Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Art is the child of Nature.

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

Art is a sense of magic.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Life and art are inseparable.

There is no art without contemplation.

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

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

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

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.