Pablo Picasso on nature

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Art is the lie that tells the truth.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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