Sigrid Quotes

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.