Simon McBurney Quotes

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Art is science in the flesh.

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

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

Art is science made clear.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.