Quotes About Imitating Nature

#1. No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it ... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

Joshua Reynolds

#2. We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.

Michael A. Ledeen

#3. Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.

Jenny Han

#5. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

Mandy Hale

#6. What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Mark Strand

#7. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#8. The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

H.G.Wells

#9. In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Nicolas Chamfort

#10. Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

David Broder

#11. You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made of water, and yet we lose two to three quarts of it every day through perspiration and other bodily functions.

Suzanne Somers

#12. Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.

Paracelsus

#13. This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Charles Kingsley

#14. The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

Hans Hofmann

#15. Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

Beau Sides

#16. In their perverted way all humanity imitates you. Yet they put themselves at a distance from you and exalt themselves against you. But even by thus imitating you they acknowledge that you are the creator of all nature and so concede that there is no palace where one can entirely escape from you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

Rajneesh