However surprising it may seem, the fact is we don’t actually have a better understanding how the brain might produce consciousness than Descartes did of how the immaterial soul would accomplish this feat; after all, at the present time we lack even the rudimentary outlines of a neural theory of consciousness.
*I was really tempted to replace ‘He’in the above quote with: ‘the artist’
Vincent Van Gogh
it can never be truly random
Richter, from an Interview with Anna Tilroe, 1987
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I wish this quote ended after the word pleasure-
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JERRY SALTZ
advice for artists
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Ignorance is bliss, but its ransom is to keep you a prisoner of your own fears.
I’m not an expert, but I know what fear is; I know what fear will make you do…
Do you run away?
There is a long, long list of what you can do.The way immature people can conquer—they don’t conquer it, but they feel they make the fear disappear—is by falling in love.










