#nature

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else. ↗

— John Tenniel

#carry #else #figure #i #models

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#eye #includes #inner #nature #only

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#art #beautiful #express #expressing #honest

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#beautiful #even #grotesque #honest #me

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#being #bringing #building #courses #enjoy

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#believed #mastery #nature #self #substitute

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical