Quotes About Art

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.