“Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it.”
Miguel de Cervantes book Novelas ejemplares
El licenciado Vidriera [The Lawyer of Glass]
Novelas ejemplares (1613)
design as well as draw! <br class="br">George Wallis. " Art Education for the people. No IV. The principles of Fine Art as Applied to Industrial Purposes http://books.google.com/books?id=l55GAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA231." In: People's & Howitt's Journal: Of Literature, Art, and Popular Progress, Vol. 3. John Saunders ed. 1847, p. 231.
“Good painters imitate nature, bad ones vomit it.”
Miguel de Cervantes book Novelas ejemplares
El licenciado Vidriera [The Lawyer of Glass]
Novelas ejemplares (1613)
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Discourse no. 6, delivered on December 10, 1774; vol. 1, p. 150.
Discourses on Art
Wynford Dewhurst (1864–1941) British artist
Wynford Dewhurst, 'What is Impressionism?' in Contemporary Review. vol. XCIX, 1911, p. 300.
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“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
St. George Tucker (1752–1827) Bermudan lawyer and judge
A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia (1796)
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 146