What makes a set
What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas. Daniel Levitin
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What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas. Daniel Levitin
Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process. Daniel Levitin
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness. Daniel Levitin
The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts. Daniel Levitin
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes. Daniel Levitin
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business–all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry). Daniel Levitin
We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others. Daniel Levitin
I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they’re not that hard to acquire. Daniel Levitin
I agree with the sentiment that it’s probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren’t so than to not believe something – you know, to believe in a lie. Daniel Levitin
The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They’re artists, artistically inclined. Daniel Levitin