Jonah Lehrer Quotes

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

Art is science in the flesh.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

But of works of art little can be said.

We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.