I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always... →
Eric Kandel
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these... →
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and... →
I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a... →
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is... →
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
To create a work of art is to create the world.
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease... →
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of... →
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to... →