Curiosity Illuminates The Correct Path To Anything

Here Is This Three-pound Mass Of Jelly You Can Hold In The Palm Of Your Hand, And It Can Contemplate The Vastness Of Interstellar Space. It Can Contemplate The Meaning Of Infinity And It Can Contemplate Itself Contemplating On The Meaning Of Infinity.

Any Ape Can Reach For A Banana, But Only Humans Can Reach For The Stars.

In The Fetus, Or A Really Young Child, All The Different Brain Areas Are Connected To Each Other, Diffusely. And As The Brain Develops, The Excess Connections Are Turned Off, So You Get Very Specialized Areas. So Most People Have Really Specialized Talents. What Happens In Creative People Is This Pooling Doesn't Take Place.

What The Artist Tries To Do (either Consciously Or Unconsciously) Is To Not Only Capture The Essence Of Something But Also To Amplify It In Order To More Powerfully Activate The Same Neural Mechanisms That Would Be Activated By The Original Object.

If You're A Thinking Person, The Liver Is Interesting, But Nothing Is More Intriguing Than The Brain.