My friend Mark Tiedemann is a successful writer, having published many science fiction books over his life. He has a habit of being constantly interesting. His blog is Distal Muse. Today, he wrote about the importance of art. Here’s an excerpt from today’s post, his 1,000th:
I have also talked a great deal about art. Another bias. I believe that without art, we are nothing. Mammals breeding and eating, contributing nothing beyond the recycling of organic resources. Art—music, literature, optical, sculpture, architecture, and all combinations thereof—is our expression of everything worthwhile. Art comes out of love. If there is no love, there is no art, and without art we admit to being blind and deaf to love.
That’s one reason I have no patience with those who discount it, censor it, betray it, even destroy it. Worse still (because they have a notion of it) those who see it as nothing but a commodity.
So much insight. When, in medicine, we depart from generally-accepted science and try solutions we think might work, just can’t articulate exactly why, is also art. Which is why medicine is often referred to as both a science and an art.