A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of…

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

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…

— G. H. Hardy

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

— G. H. Hardy

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise…

— George Polya

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work…

— Howard Nemerov

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but…

— John Ruskin