“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”– Claude Monet Related Quotes “Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.”– Marquis de Sade “Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”– Honore de Balzac “You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”– Orison Swett Marden