"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Music communicates with the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

"Music communicates with the soul."

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"

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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."

"Facts do not speak."

"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."