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Quotes About Art

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.
~ Tim O'Brien
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
~ Jack Vance
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.
~ James Jordan
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
~ James Russell Lowell
The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.
~ Joel Garreau
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
~ W. H. Auden
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Nature is a divine art.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They compose poems to their knives.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's
~ Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.
~ Thiruman Archunan
I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.
~ K. Lee Lerner
They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
~ Ray Bradbury
Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.
~ Anurag Wadehra
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
~ Samuel Butler
It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.
~ Duane Hanson
There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.
~ Keith Haring
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
~ Billie Holiday
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
~ Lauren Oliver