Edward Tufte Quotes

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Art is science made clear.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.