Acquired taste Quote by David Foster Wallace

Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that…

— Morris Kline

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

— Paul Lockhart

“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance…

— Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced…

— Cornelius Lanczos

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

— Richard Hamming

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy…

— G. H. Hardy

The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher…

— Oswald Spengler

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because…

— Bertrand Russell

Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and…

— Raymond Louis Wilder