Quotes for All
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians … Read more
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important…something that would make a difference in people’s lives or leave an imprint in history. Evangeline Lilly
Painters can study the masters can’t they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? Eva Marie Saint
If I hadn’t been a designer, I’d have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself. Eva Zeisel
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them! Eugene Delacroix
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one’s memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters. Eugene Delacroix