A Quote by Rollo May
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.
A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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