G. H. Hardy Quotes

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like little children.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.