The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing. – Edward Tufte
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. – Henry Louis Gates
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. – Camillo di Cavour
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. – Jim Davis
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. – Hans Hofmann
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. – Albrecht Durer
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! – Camille Paglia
Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. – Peter Hammill
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. – Beatrice Wood
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. – Jackson Pollock
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. – W. H. Auden
