Art Quote by Voltaire

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine…

— Antony Gormley

Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither…

— Eero Saarinen

The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to…

— Luca Pacioli

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

— Akira Yoshizawa

We communicate through art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time and culture.

— Richard Clar

Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk…

— Eero Saarinen

“The elaborately executed art on the ceiling in the Altamira cave did not fit current notions of Palaeolithic ‘savagery’; it was too ‘advanced’ for…

— James David Lewis-Williams