Eric Kandel Quotes

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.