Inspiration from Nature Quotes

Sometimes art imitates life.

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.