Quotes with nature-this

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  • John Updike Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Auguste Rodin 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
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Philip James Bailey Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bono As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Albrecht Durer As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Lord George Byron As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Akhenaton As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Adolf Loos Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Blaise Pascal Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia 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
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Brit Morin Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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