Art Quotes

"The most beautiful theories are often the most difficult to formulate."

"It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment."

"The beauty of an equation is often the first sign of its correctness."

"I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"Art and science are not antagonists but partners."

"Art and science are not opposed; they are both ways of understanding the world."

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry."

"Science and poetry are both attempts to capture truth."

"The poet and the scientist are both trying to express profound truths in as compressed a form as possible."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics is its systematic study."

"Art and science are not opposites but complementary expressions of human understanding."

"The use and handling of mathematics is as much an art as a science."

"Science cannot tell us a word about why music and beauty and color and joy exist at all."

"I cannot conceive of genuine poetry without some deepening of my understanding of life."

"The world of perception of color is very rich, and we approach it through the multiple gates of sensory experience."

"Art and mathematics are expressions of human creativity."

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

"The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful."

"Mathematics is both art and science."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"Art and science share the goal of revealing hidden truths."

"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."

"Art is the effort to see and to make others see the inner nature of the world."

"It is through science that we proof but through art that we persuade."

"We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry."

"The intuitionistic mathematician is obliged to admire the passing beauty of the evolving constructions of his science."

"The beauty of a proof lies in its necessity, not in its cleverness."

"Mathematics without intuition is logic without soul."