Quotes About Art

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.