Famous Quotes

"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

James Whistler on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by James Whistler

• "Work alone will efface the footsteps of work."

• "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

• "The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."

• "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."