Re: Art and Philosophy

[Rob Kall <fh@futurehealth.org>]

I recently did a search for a colleague on ART and SCIENCE. Here are some from
that search.
Hope they help.
Rob Kall
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and
art into pedantry.  Hence University education.
 George Bernard Shaw
ART, CONSCIOUSNESS
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
First study the science. Then practice the art which is born of that science.
DaVinci, Leonardo
"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is in his heart."
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great
scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eisley, The Night Country 1971
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does
the
sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself, Art may be
said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled
in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present
only
a confused mass.
Hazlitt
As we go over these higher pleasures of the mind-- literature, art, music,
religion and philosophy-- we see what a minor role the intellect plays in
comparison with the senses and feelings. 
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
I can see no other reason for the existence of art and poetry and religion
except as they tend to restore in us a freshness of vision and a more
emotional
glamour and more vital sense of life.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands
and
his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and
his heart is an artist.  
Louis Nizer  
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do
it.  
Pablo Picasso
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.  
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar
with we
cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we
see a new meaning in it.  
 Anaias Nin
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau, Le Coq et l'Arlequin
ART, CONSCIOUSNESS
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
Art is more Godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.
John Opie
For years, I marched to a music in comparison with which the military music of
the streets is noise and discord, I was daily intoxicated, and yet no man
could
call me intemperate. With all your science can you tell me how it is, and
whence it is, that light comes into the soul.
Thoreau,  j, 7/16/1851