It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Jonas SalkRead
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.
Interpretation
Art is essential for education and scientific progress, marking a new era in society.
Jonas Salk emphasizes the importance of art in shaping not only our educational systems but also our scientific endeavors. He suggests that the integration of art into various facets of life is crucial and signifies the beginning of a transformative period that can lead to significant advancements in society.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of interdisciplinary studies, a teacher quoted Jonas Salk to highlight how art can enhance learning.
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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