Nelson Ramos

“Thus, writing is not an obligatory product of our evolved brain. Writing is better considered a plug-in, a cultural tool grafted onto other built-in properties of the brain.”
― Anjan Chatterjee, 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.”
― Anjan Chatterjee, 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.”
― Anjan Chatterjee, The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art

“A real razão continua inescrutável - a leitura nos dá prazer. É um prazer complexo e um prazer difícil; varia de época para época e de livro para livro. Mas ele é suficiente. Na verdade, o prazer é tão grande que não se pode ter dúvidas de que sem ele o mundo seria um lugar muito diferente e muito inferior ao que é. Ler mudou, muda e continuará mudando o mundo.”
― Virginia Woolf, O Sol e o Peixe: Prosas Poéticas