Why do you think art is greater than science?

Question

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Answer 1

Art is so much better than science in that art comes from with-in, beautiful imagination to where even science stems from. We'd be back in the cave man days if there were no thought of physicalism.

Answer 2

I DON'T think art is greater than science. I think they are two sides of the same coin. Science examines and can explain the mysterious, excite the mind and heart with learning, reveal hidden truths and unexpected symmetries, eliminate willful ignorance, bring order to our understanding of our surroundings and harmonize widely disparate elements of reality. It can show us incredible detail as well as the great swash of the structure of the entire universe.
Now take all of that, replace the word Science with Art, and it's still true. Add vision, imagination and an attention getting frame, and you have what we know as art.
Art brings focus and the unique relationship between artist and audience. Both art and science are best when revealing truth - and can, in fact, both be part of the same experience. The best scientists and the best artists incorporate each other's disciplines in their own work.

Answer 3

Well...science is 1+1=2, and everything in science is ultimately reducible to 1+1=2 or something like that. Science is, in the end, simple, factual and therefore boring in a way. Art on the other hand, exists in complexity, it has seemingly random elements and truly difficult concepts that only a sentient being like us humans can grasp. Therefore, appreciating art approaches the limits of our minds, whereas a computer can do science (in some regards).

Answer 4

Without science there would be no art. Not only has a form of science created the actual paint and canvas, but because of science, new worlds have opened to all of us through art. Think of the artist who had blurred vision and can now see clearly because of lazer surgery. That is just one example, I could give you a hundred different examples.Art on the other hand allows us to view the beauty and the horror of our world.

Answer 5

Because science is how things really are and art is how different people see things. Their personality and feeling gets projected into art, but where is the feeling in science?

Answer 6

Science and art are my two passions. But I'd choose art any day. It is much more free. Science has particular rules and such that trap the mind in a one-way path. Whereas art allows the mind to explore all of it's regions, and to allow itself to travel subconciously to the unknown.

Answer 7

Because the arts lead the sciences. It always has.

Answer 8

Practically speaking, science is about life and food and convenience and making it possible for humans to exist. Art (music, visuals, sculpture, dance etc) is about enjoyment of life.

I suppose that evolution has made some humans more adept at finding out, making things, creating usable goods and, in later times, developing services that keep us all fed, warm or cool, travelling, clothed and communicating. That's been the work of science.

Artists seem to want to understand more of the human condition, and human relationships with their surroundings.

You could argue that both are important but I think that science is essential for life and art isn't, so science is the more important.

Answer 9

answer coming...
Sorry, had to answer the phone! Actually, I don't think it is. They're different, aren't they? Art comes from another source, & contributes in very different ways. They're both important--of equal value, do you think?

Edit: Hi, Third P! I thought you were referring to "art" as the creative inspiration & response, not to the "materials" [Diane B]. & if you really think about it, science has NOTHING to do with those beautiful, primitive drawings on cave walls! A very good question that requires careful thought. (I'm proud of you!)

Answer 10

I think perhaps that...for the individual, art is greater, but for the society, science is greater.