Art taps into vast areas of knowledge and strengthens research to find new meaning of what we already know.
Visual art contributes to our understanding of the visual brain because it explores and reveals the brain’s perceptual capabilities. As Paul Klee once wrote, “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible.” But visual art also obeys the laws of the visual brain, and thus reveals these laws to us.
This quote was pulled from an article in the Science magazine https://science.sciencemag.org/content/293/5527/51.full
