Art Quotes

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

~ Bjarke Ingels

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

~ Donald Knuth

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

~ Bruno Bettelheim

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

~ Temple Grandin

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

~ Karl Popper

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.

~ Michael Leunig

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

~ Will Durant

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

~ Abraham Verghese

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

~ Katherine Johnson

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

~ Publilius Syrus

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

~ William Blake

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

~ Ben Shneiderman

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

~ David Blaine

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

~ Antonio Damasio

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

~ Tim Burton

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

~ Virginia Postrel

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

~ Louie Schwartzberg

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

~ Camille Paglia

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

~ Jules Verne

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.

~ Paul Samuelson

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

~ Denis Diderot

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

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

~ André Breton

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

~ Alexander Pope

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

~ John Desmond Bernal

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

~ Émile Durkheim

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.

~ Richard Dawkins

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

~ William Blake

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

~ Gregory Bateson

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

~ Edward Tufte

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

~ Diana Gabaldon

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

Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.

~ Andrea Bocelli

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

~ Eric Kandel