Art and Science

"The force of Science lies in its authoritative reason. The force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and its active contagiousness.

Being a creation of Man, it re-creates man.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments; it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems.

Art, like life, dictates systems of philosophy. It is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge.

Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.

The stimulus of science is the deficiency of our knowledge.

The stimulus of Art is the abundance of our emotions and our latent desires.Science is the vehicle of facts - it is indifferent, or at best tolerant, to the ideas, which lie behind facts.

Art is the vehicle of ideas and its attitude to facts is strictly partial.Science looks and observes,

Art sees and foresees...

Naum Gabo