Nature Art Quotes

I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.

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

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.