Pastoral Resources

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.

By nature, men love newfangledness.