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Quotes About Art

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
~ Bob Livingston
When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
~ Joseph Beuys
The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
~ Paracelsus
Perfect typography is more a science than an art.
~ Jan Tschichold
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
~ Maxim Gorky
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
~ M. C. Escher
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
~ Derek Walcott
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.
~ Gustave Eiffel
Art for me is the science of freedom.
~ Joseph Beuys
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
~ Max Planck
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
~ Aleister Crowley
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Words divide, pictures unite.
~ Otto Neurath
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
~ Alan Moore
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
~ Paul Dirac
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
~ Don Spencer
Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.
~ Al Hirschfeld
I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.
~ Marc Quinn
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
~ Albert Einstein
I like to think of music as an emotional science.
~ George Gershwin