Jonah Lehrer Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Venture, Edges

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.197, Canongate Books

• The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Teacher, Art, Hard Work

• It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Reality, Ironic

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

• Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Reality, Needs

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

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