Advise Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide…

— Anonymous

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

— Craig Raine

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

— David Hockney

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

“It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist’s…

— Thomas Mann

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still…

— Robert Watson-Watt

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

— Lewis Mumford

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret…

— Catherine Yass