John Ruskin Quotes

Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

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

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

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.