Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Nature engenders the science of painting.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.