"I realized that the image I had been given by my teachers, the scientists.. ..by their way of looking at Nature, was just another stage setting with all the magnificence and ingenuity that the genius of any artist produces in a work of art. I realized that in my scientific journey I had been under the power of a magic spell of a work of art whose reality was just as true as the verity of the image in an artist's vision."
React to this quote
More by Naum Gabo
See allResonant Thoughts
"Rohde became more and more firmly bound to the bourgeois world, its institutions and accepted opinions. … The contrast between the two natures makes Rohde and Nietzsche exemplary representatives of tw…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"I’d do a lot of things differently now. It’s true I ended up on a team trying to win a ring, which rarely h…"
— Darko Miličić"This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has cr…"
— Viktor Schauberger"4243. Speak the Truth, and shame the Devil."
— Thomas Fuller (writer)"We're at an era where a lot of people are beginning to step in, in a really firm way, into their identities…"
— Tope Folarin"Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion."
— Harold W. Percival"Indeed, you should not desire to weigh with the intellect the issues of Tawhīd and the Hereafter; the reali…"
— Ibn Khaldun