Art Quote by George Santayana

“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

Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He…

— Ru Freeman

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it…

— Henri Poincare

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

— Christopher Robin Milne

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

— G. H. Hardy

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and…

— Hermann Weyl

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

— Hermann Weyl