Art Quote by Henry James

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before…

— Alan Macfarlane

“When you realise the circle is a circle, you can understand art”

— Greta Bellamacina

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and…

— Havelock Ellis

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Havelock Ellis

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich