The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS has an online art gallery and presents online art exhibitions on different themes. A popular one is nature. Our online art exhibitions “The Healing Power of ART Inspired by NATURE”, “The Healing Power of ART In Honor of Nature” and “Our Bond With Nature” have raised awareness about our magnificent natural world and our need to honor, protect and preserve it. We always include art and statements by contemporary artists.
In this presentation I invite you to enjoy inspirational quotes about nature by famous artists, writers, poets and other nature lovers and advocates.
“There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind of composition. Because no one can stop us from imagining the world in the way that pleases us most.” ~ André Derain, French painter and sculptor associated with the Fauve group of artists.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~ Albert Camus
“Art takes nature as its model.” ~ Aristotle
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.” ~ Henri Rousseau
“Nature’s instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.” ~ Henri Rousseau
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” ~ John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore, / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: / I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” ~ Lord Byron
“All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.” Hans Jean Arp
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
~ Vincent van Gogh
At the age of 54, Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) suffered a severe stroke that left him paralyzed. It took him two years to recover — convalescence aided greatly, he believed, by his immersion in nature and its healing power. “How it all nourishes, lulls me,” he exulted, “in the way most needed; the open air, the rye-fields, the apple orchards.”
“The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.” ~ Ansel Adams
“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. “ ~ Native American proverb
“Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.” ~ Claude Monet
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.“ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. “ ~ Standing Bear
“Art will never be able to exist without nature.” ~ Pierre Bonnard
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. “ ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. “ ~ Albert Einstein
“The artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.” ~ Odilon Redon
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” Rachel Louise Carson
“Nature gets into our souls and opens doors to hidden parts of ourselves.” ~ Pamela Heyda
“I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.” ~ Paul Gauguin
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God… I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” ~ Anne Frank
“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.” ~ Rachel Louise Carson
“A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.” ~ John James Audubon
“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” ~ Linda Hogan
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. “ ~ Henry David Thoreau
“I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.” ~ Grandma Moses
“Nature is a haunted house — but Art — is a house that tries to be haunted.” ~ Emily Dickenson
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.” ~ Paul Cezanne
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. “ ~ William Blake
“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.” ~ Milton Avery
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.” ~ Cennino Cennini
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” ~ Jane Austin, Mansfield Park
Dear Renée, this is a wonderful collection of inspiring quotes. Thank you for putting this together.
I’d like to add one of my favorite quotes that’s not directly about nature but about people and the world in general. It’s attributed to Anaïs Nin but the origin is the Talmud:
“We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
I think this is so true, especially for artists, as we bring what we have within to our art.
Zahava
This is so encouraging Renee….. Have just posted a visual response on Facebook,to my friends of which you are one….some of my recent mixed media paintings,therapeutic to me and I hope to those who view them. The tondo selected as a contender for ZAFAA 2018 (Zonta Ashburton Female Female Art Award) here in NZ.