This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Message about Messages
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This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
Kirsten Ward, who is a physician and psychologist, says that art has the greatest impact when it makes the thinking part of the brain talk to the feeling part.
Donald N. Thompson • The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
an image is not a picture – it may have little or no visual component, and manifests as a psychosomatic event.
Tom Cheetham • Imaginal Love
Many of the greatest Medieval and Renaissance paintings can also be seen as a form of imaginative soul-craft. Raphael’s School of Athens, for example, is imprinted on my soul (through endless gawping at the poster of it on my wall). It’s a portal between the sensory and the spiritual world, connecting us to Raphael’s ideal city, where the
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