Art Quote by Walter Isaacson

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,…

— Albert Einstein

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and hopeless dreariness

— Albert Einstein

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries…

— Albert Einstein

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

— Henry Ward Beecher

[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can…

— Bertrand Russell

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and…

— Walter Savage Landor

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould