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“This ability is partly why artistically naive viewers prefer representational paintings over abstract ones: they can latch onto a piece of the meaning of the painting.”
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
“The bliss of someone in the midst of an opium or marijuana high is the result of the flooding of their receptors that are bathed more gently when we experience everyday pleasures.”
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
“Nothing dramatic happened. Calle described this final encounter as a banal ending to a banal story. Her art was to play out empty romances with which we easily delude ourselves. She examined our indulgent fantasies that we easily project onto others.”
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
“The golden (logarithmic) spiral. The golden rectangle is formed by two sides comprised of the golden ratio. Portioning off a square within the golden rectangle leaves a smaller golden rectangle, a pattern that can be repeated ad infinitum. Connecting the points of the successively smaller squares gives the golden spiral found in nautilus shells, rams’ horns, whirlpools, and galaxies.”
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
“However, Serrano sees the symbol as now sanitized of its horror. He challenges peoples’ reverence for religious iconography that often masquerades as reverence for religion itself. His struggle with religion is not obvious from just looking at the picture. Instead, the picture and its title seems to be pissing on good people.”
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
― The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
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