It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Jonas SalkRead
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
Interpretation
Art is essential for education and scientific progress, marking a new era in society.
Jonas Salk emphasizes the importance of art in shaping not only our educational systems but also our scientific endeavors. He suggests that the integration of art into various facets of life is crucial and signifies the beginning of a transformative period that can lead to significant advancements in society.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of interdisciplinary studies, a teacher quoted Jonas Salk to highlight how art can enhance learning.
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.
I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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