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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

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

Thomas Hood

Nature

Artist

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Hans Hofmann

Nature

Light

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

Men