After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world - Pam Shaw

One can never study nature too much and too hard - Vincent van Gogh

Study nature not books - Jean Louis Agassiz

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures - Vincent van Gogh

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more - Vincent van Gogh

Land really is the best art - Andy Warhol

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art - Louisa May Alcott

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature - August Rodin

Nature is the art of God - Dante Alighieri

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration - Claude Monet

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art - Cicero

For art may err, but nature cannot miss - John Dryden

Art is a harmony parallel with nature - Paul Cézanne

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them - John Ruskin (1819-1900)