Acute observation is critical to to the manipulation of ideas as well as artistic media. Perceptions combine, patterns emerge, and possibilities suggest themselves to those who extend the reach of their understanding and awareness.
While the sciences require accuracy and precision, the arts call for honesty and reflection. Both order and arrange information and concepts by methods that challenge and transform their meanings with the intent of illuminating connections and realizing possibilities.
Given their differences, the rigor of science and the imaginative intensity of the arts also include processes involving uncertainty and risk. Yet every outcome, whether it reaches a desirable conclusion or not, is a refinement of vision.
While the sciences require accuracy and precision, the arts call for honesty and reflection. Both order and arrange information and concepts by methods that challenge and transform their meanings with the intent of illuminating connections and realizing possibilities.
Given their differences, the rigor of science and the imaginative intensity of the arts also include processes involving uncertainty and risk. Yet every outcome, whether it reaches a desirable conclusion or not, is a refinement of vision.
