Antoni Gaudi Quotes

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

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

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.