Quotes About Philosophy

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

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

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

What thou art, that thou art.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.