Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Interpretation
Science explores the miraculous aspects of existence that remain beyond our understanding, while art seeks to interpret those mysteries.
In this quote by Ray Bradbury, he draws a profound connection between science and art. He suggests that science operates as an inquiry into the miraculous phenomena of the universe that, despite our best efforts, remain largely inexplicable. In parallel, art serves as a medium through which these mysteries can be expressed and understood, indicating that both disciplines, though distinct, are deeply intertwined in their quest to uncover and interpret the wonders of existence.
In practice
In a lecture on the interdependence of art and science, this quote highlights how both fields try to unravel the universe's mysteries.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
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