How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? 1.97K
Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. 680
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. 706
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. 815
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. 900
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. 1.76K
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ‘objective’ ontological reality. 731
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. 575
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view. 1.51K
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. 649
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. 617
I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe. 605
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. 639