Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Interpretation
Science explores the miraculous aspects of existence that remain beyond our understanding, while art seeks to interpret those mysteries.
In this quote by Ray Bradbury, he draws a profound connection between science and art. He suggests that science operates as an inquiry into the miraculous phenomena of the universe that, despite our best efforts, remain largely inexplicable. In parallel, art serves as a medium through which these mysteries can be expressed and understood, indicating that both disciplines, though distinct, are deeply intertwined in their quest to uncover and interpret the wonders of existence.
In practice
In a lecture on the interdependence of art and science, this quote highlights how both fields try to unravel the universe's mysteries.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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