“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.”
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“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”
“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.”
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.”
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
“Land really is the best art.”
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.”
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.”
“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.”
“Nature is the art of God.”
“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.”