Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.