All things are artificiall, for Nature is the Art of God

Nature is the art of God

Nature is the art of God.

Nature is the art of God.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

All art is but imitation of nature.

The fashionable ideology that "artificial" lacks the inherent goodness of "natural" is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate intent to make. Nature also "makes" things, using a set of basic building blocks common throughout the universe. Exchanging infinite time for deliberate design, nature has ingeniously built plants, planets, galaxies and unimaginable constructs which seem to structure the universe itself. What we call "natural" is simply the result of whatever set of rules nature has followed in fashioning our observable reality. On planet Earth, nature has manipulated the common elements to fashion everything from bacteria to the molten core of the planet. Discoveries in the "nano" technologies of bio, molecular, and micro engineering will re-edit the nomenclature of "natural" versus "unnatural", blurring if not erasing the line of distinction between "machine" and "organism", "natural" and "unnatural", "God-given" and "man-made".

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Art is the perfection of nature.

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.

Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.

Art is the child of Nature.

There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.