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Quotes from The Age of Insight — Eric Kandel

born 1929 Austria

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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

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It spawned an ongoing pursuit to link these disciplines.

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The intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Vienna is in my blood: my heart beats in three-quarter time.

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As astronomy and physics inspired the Enlightenment, so biology inspired Modernism.

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Reductionism can expand our vision and give us new insights into the nature and creation of art.

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One of the characteristic features of Viennese life at this time was the continual, easy interaction of artists, writers, and thinkers with scientists.

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Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes...

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A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of depression, but a Beethoven symphony reveals what that depression feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

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The Modernist reaction to the Enlightenment came in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, whose brutalizing effects revealed that modern life had not become... mathematically perfect...

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The portraits of the Viennese modernists, with their conscious and dramatic attempts to depict their subject's inner feelings, represent an ideal example of how psychological and biological insights can enrich our relationship with art.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric Kandel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.