As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share
Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead. — Semir Zeki Copy Share
Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Semir Zeki Copy Share
Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits.… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works.… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls! — Semir Zeki Copy Share
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers of women… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass,… — Semir Zeki Copy Share
