Out with stereotypes feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination there is myth.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy an art in a lover an accomplishment in a bachelor and second-nature in a married man.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

'Healing ' Papa would tell me 'is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Like music and art love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

All things are artificial for nature is the art of God.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being the former has made us men.

All art is but imitation of nature.