“Mathematics is the art of explanation.”

“Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”

“Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”

“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. ”

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

“Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity”