Art Quote by M. C. Escher

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

— Pablo Picasso

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

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

— Havelock Ellis

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

— Roger Scruton

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

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice…

— Robert Delaunay

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

— Joseph Conrad

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

— John Donne

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”

— Piet Hein

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

— Steve Lacy