“Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.”– Xun Zi Related Quotes “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’”– Edgar Allan Poe “Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”– Margaret Mead “Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”– Fay Weldon