Artist Quotes by Eric Kandel

8 Artist quotes by Eric Kandel

Eric Kandel brings a neuroscientist’s eye to the world of creators in these eight brief statements. They’re a neat blend of brain science and artistic intuition, ideal for a fast‑read glimpse into how he connects mind and making.

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In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to…

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Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between…

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I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art…

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“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist…

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I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them…

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Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad…

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Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward…

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I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not…

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“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular…

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In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People…

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I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare…

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One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is…

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I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

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The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our…

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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

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I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me…

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It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say…

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If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory…

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My heart beats in three-quarter time.

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Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and…

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