"Perspective in art has receded along with harmony……" — Iain McGilchrist
"Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments."
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Iain McGilchrist
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16 Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that…
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how…
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of…
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness…
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses…
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship…
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to…
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that…
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand…
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