There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. Religio Medici (1642)
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature, they being both servants of his providence: art is the perfection of nature; were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos; nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. Religio Medici (1642)