“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
XI, 10
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
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