Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art is spiritual.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

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.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap of the sea and the moon. There were books to read and pictures to paint and music.

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

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Art is the child of Nature.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

Without art there is no hope.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.