Beginning Quote by Marcel Duchamp

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for…

— Marcel Duchamp

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake…

— Georges Braque

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

— Bridget Riley

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

Science and art are not opposed.

— Samuel Morse

“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging…

— Tim Minchin