Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job. George W. Bush
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. Edward Hopper
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. Ovid
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Eric Hoffer
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. Alex Noble
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. Baltasar Gracian
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. David Herbert Lawrence
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. Doug Coupland
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. Edward Hopper
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. Edward Hopper
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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. George Byron
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Jonathan Swift
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. William Shatner
Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. Camille Paglia
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. Isabel Allende
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. Marguerite Moreau