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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse on nature

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGill on nature

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire on nature

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
Anthony Hopkins on nature

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Bodhidharma on nature

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin on nature

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
Jenny McCarthy on nature

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Tom Hiddleston on nature

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
Billy Corgan on nature

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on nature

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on nature

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Newt Gingrich on nature

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume on nature

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade on nature

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Martin Scorsese on nature

Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri on nature

By nature I'm not a brooder.
Hugh Jackman on nature

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
Hugh Jackman on nature

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Hugh Jackman on nature

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
Hugh Jackman on nature