Science makes discoveries, Art composes …

Science makes discoveries; Art composes works. Science is an acquirement of man; Science is a ladder: one savant mounts above his fellow. Poetry is a soaring flight.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

Progress is the motive …

Progress is the motive-power of Science; the ideal is the generator of Art. 

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

Supreme Art is the region of …

Supreme Art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces. Like water, which heated to a hundred degrees will bear no increase of temperature, human thought attains in certain men its maximum intensity. Eschylus, Job, Phidias, Isaiah, Saint Paul, Juvenal, Dante, Michael Angelo, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven, with some others, rise to the hundredth degree of genius. 

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo 

Art is the …

Art is the second branch of Nature.

William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo