Famous quotes containing the words nature and/or art:
“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)