Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"Art is the language of the soul."
Nolan Bushnell
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"Art and science are not opposites; they are partners in understanding the world."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"Art is the evidence that we have more than mere survival in mind."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"Art and science are not opposed; they are two ways of seeing truth."
Carver Mead
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"Elegance in engineering mirrors elegance in nature."
Carver Mead
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"Art and business share the same principle: solve human problems creatively."
Donna Dubinsky
"The poetical view is a kind of elevation to a higher realm of thought."
Ada Lovelace
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"Programming is an art form that requires both the soul and the mind."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"Programming is the art of making the impossible inevitable."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"Programming is the art of translating human intention into machine action."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way."
John von Neumann
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"In the end, mathematics is a language for describing the patterns we find in the world."
John von Neumann
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"Creativity requires the courage to be misunderstood."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"The artist's role is to make visible what others have learned not to see."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"Art is the most human response to the mystery of existence."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"The collaboration between art and science is where the future of human understanding lies."
Carver Mead
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Gordon Moore
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"Programming requires both creativity and precision—they are not opposites."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"I programmed with my whole heart and soul, not just with my hands."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"Elegance in a proof is worth more than mere correctness."
John von Neumann
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"The distinction between art and science is less clear than we suppose."
John von Neumann
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"Art is the expression of what cannot be said in words."
Donna Dubinsky
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Donna Dubinsky
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"The future belongs to those who can integrate art and science in their thinking."
Carver Mead
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"Art and science are both ways of asking the same fundamental questions."
Carver Mead
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"I believe that code is a form of cultural expression."
Richard Stallman
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"Design should be invisible; it should just work beautifully"
Steve Wozniak
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"Great engineering requires both technical skill and artistic sensibility"
Steve Wozniak
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"Art and science are not opposites; they are two expressions of human understanding."
John von Neumann
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"Art and science converge when both pursue truth through different languages."
John von Neumann