Ameen Rihani Quotes

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

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.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

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

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

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.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuableto do.

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.