Quote from : A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form Book

Mathematics is . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be , damn it.