Art Quotes

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the… — Franz Grillparzer
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… — Freeman Dyson
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. — Mae Jemison
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in… — John Cage
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is… — William Whewell
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge… — James Boswell
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious… — Gerhard Richter
Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth… — Gerhard Richter
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make… — Gerhard Richter
Art is the highest form of hope. — Gerhard Richter
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. — Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him;… — Sun Tzu
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money,… — Barbara Kruger
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. — Constantin Stanislavski
Art is a delivery system for worldviews. — Alex Grey
Art upsets, science reasures. — Georges Braque
All art is subversive. — Pablo Picasso
Art is whatever you can get away with. — John Cage
Art is the child of Nature. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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