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

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

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

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