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• It seems that nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds, talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
  The passions alone have the privilege of bringing them to light, and of giving us sometimes views more certain and more perfect than art could possible produce....
• Consciousness is art.
• Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. -- Paul Klee, Creative Credo
• Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Picasso Speaks, in The Arts (May 1923)...
• PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
  "There is no art," says Shakespeare, foolish man, "To read the mind's construction in the face....
• Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
  -- Marcel Proust, Maxim...
• What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language?
  Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly....
• Modern psychology takes completely for granted that behavior and neural function are perfectly correlated, that one is completely caused by the other.
  There is no separate soul or lifeforce to stick a finger into the brain now and then and make neural cells do what they would not otherwise....