Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The art of living well consists in understanding the true sources of happiness."Thomas Malthus
"Art reflects the state of civilization and the virtue of the people."Thomas Malthus
"Art is the expression of surplus energy and refined sentiment."Vilfredo Pareto
"Art is the window through which we glimpse truth."Vilfredo Pareto
"True workmanship cannot coexist with the profit motive in modern industry."Thorstein Veblen
"Fashion exists primarily to signal that the wearer does not labor."Thorstein Veblen
"Art production has been corrupted by its transformation into a commodity."Thorstein Veblen
"The artisan's disappearance represents a genuine cultural loss despite material progress."Thorstein Veblen
"We should celebrate the intersection of art and science."Fei-Fei Li
"The art of economics is knowing what to measure and what to leave to human judgment."Alfred Marshall
"An artistic sensibility applied to economics can reveal truths that numbers alone cannot."Alfred Marshall
"Art and science are two languages of truth."Bob Kahn
"Art expresses what words cannot."Bob Kahn
"Art and science are not opposites; they are dance partners."Andrew Ng
"Art challenges us to see the world differently than we did before."Andrew Ng
"Art and science are both expressions of human creativity."Vint Cerf
"Artistic endeavor under capitalist conditions becomes inevitably servile to pecuniary considerations."Thorstein Veblen
"I wanted to create a system that was simple and elegant."Tim Berners-Lee
"Good design is invisible."Tim Berners-Lee
"The intersection of art and science creates the most profound innovations."Fei-Fei Li
"Good design is invisible because it works so well you don't notice it."Bob Kahn
"Art is what makes science worth doing."Bob Kahn
"Code is poetry written for machines and humans alike."Brendan Eich
"Art in algorithms reveals their elegance."Brendan Eich
"The art of machine learning is knowing when to simplify and when to complicate."Andrew Ng
"Good design is simple design."Ryan Dahl
"Art and science are not opposites."Ryan Dahl
"Art is how we express the inexpressible."Ryan Dahl
"The intersection of art and science is where the most interesting discoveries happen."Fei-Fei Li
"Simplicity in design is often the hardest thing to achieve, but it's always worth pursuing."Bob Kahn