“…the surreal nature of physics is precisely why it needs the help of artists. Science has progressed beyond our ability to understand it, at least in any literal sense…It’s a brute fact of psychology that the human mind cannot comprehend the double-digit dimensions of string theory or the possibility of parallel universes. Our mind evolved…
In his book Evolution’s End, Joseph Chilton Pearce shares a profound insight into the nature of human intelligence. He recounts a story from 1932, when an American Indian medicine man told Carl Jung that white men were “insane” because they thought with their heads instead of their hearts. The medicine man described “whole people” as those…
Leonardo da Vinci’s outstanding merit is to have shown by his own example that the pursuit of beauty and the pursuit of truth are not incompatible.” – George Sarton Isn’t that such an inspiring thought? It makes you pause and think about how often we separate things that belong together. We box up beauty as…
The anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that education would never truly succeed unless it was grounded in art. She wasn’t talking about making kids draw pictures all day (although, wouldn’t that be fun?)—she meant that all subjects should be taught with the spirit of imagination, exploration, and play. And then there’s Johann Goethe, the poet…
My current muse is this painting by Tsuguhara Foujita (1886-1968), a Japanese artist who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western-style paintings. There’s something that’s really captivating about it…the simple lines and muted color make me want to go draw and paint. I love the girl’s expression and the cat is cute and hilarious. My photo…
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