Art Quotes

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What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it… — Sarah Bernhardt
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be… — Gustave Eiffel
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou… — John Owen
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. — Rene Daumal
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to… — Robert Hooke
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world… — Immanuel Kant
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to… — Irving Langmuir
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. — G. H. Hardy
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. — Henri Poincare
My fingers always seem busier than my mind. — Alexander Calder
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. — Jasper Johns
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor. — Barbara Kruger
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. — Agnes Martin
What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and… — Bruce Nauman

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