“Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.”
The Artist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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English statesman and poet 1831–1891Related quotes
“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”
Aphorism 17.
Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
“Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.”
[2007, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, World Wisdom, 28, 978-1-933316-42-0]
Spiritual life, Sacred art
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
“Between God and man, between the gospel and each soul, the interpreter is Love.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395.
c. 1910; as quoted in: Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella: Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Norbert Nobis; Sprengel Museum Hannover und Stiftung Moritzburg, 2011, p 17
1905 - 1915
“[art] urges man to identify himself with nature.”
Source: 1940s, Abstract Art, Concrete Art (c. 1942), p. 118
“God made night
But
Man made darkness.”
Poem God Made Night, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)
