Tycho Quotes

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Land really is the best art.