Art Brain Quotes

#1. I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

Frank Wilczek

#2. I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

Frances Winkler

#3. There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

Shawn Amos

#4. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Art Spiegelman

#7. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

#8. Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#9. Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

Adam Gopnik

#10. It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.

Glenn Branca

#11. And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not exist; the only thing that mattered was the temperament of the artist; the only thing of interest was the way his brain worked, regardless of the subject he was treating.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#12. Comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Garry Kasparov

#13. I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

Edward Norton

#14. I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

M.I.A.

#15. Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

Stephen Covey

#16. I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Douglas Coupland

#17. Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

Kool Moe Dee

#18. You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

Maya Lin

#19. My problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks ... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ... they at least make my art more interesting

Hiroko Sakai

#20. The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Daniel Goleman

#21. Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Marc Maron

#22. Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

William Butler Yeats

#23. I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Jello Biafra

#24. A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Edvard Munch

#25. Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

Lake Bell

#26. Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

Peter Gabriel

#27. The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Marcel Duchamp

#28. Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

Ashley Ormon

#29. Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

Anne Sweeney

#30. When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

Jay Nichols

#31. Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.

V.S. Ramachandran

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

Gilles Deleuze

#33. I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#34. Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Anne Bradstreet

#35. Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Joshua Bell

#36. Is photography art? ... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

Ernst Haas

#37. Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

David Byrne

#38. Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare

#39. With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

Charles Churchill

#40. The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture ... Sometimes ... it seems to me that ... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Michelangelo

#41. I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on canvas.

Stephen King

#42. I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

Stefan Bachmann

#43. Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Julie Garwood

#44. Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#45. I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

Jason Mraz

#46. Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Childe Hassam

#47. In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

Robert Genn

#48. Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

Colin McGinn

#49. Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Konrad Lorenz

#50. Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Jessica Mitford

#51. History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

David Luiz

#52. Somewhere, within our brain, we have a potential for higher mathematics, complex physics, art, & amazing richness of thoughts, feelings & sensations Somewhere within our brain we have a potential to understand the Magic of Creative Thinking

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#53. So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

Alexander Eliot

#54. A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments ... At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#55. I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

Alison Mosshart

#56. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

Timothy Ferriss

#57. Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

Napoleon Hill

#58. If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Pablo Picasso

#59. In my brain all I think about is fame.

Tupac Shakur

#60. I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

Stevie Nicks

#61. The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you're doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

Brian Morton

#62. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

#64. The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

Arshile Gorky

#65. Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

Koichi Tohei

#66. The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91)

Thomas Lewis

#67. The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Theodore Zeldin

#68. Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

Rosa Bonheur