To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish. Every time we teach a child correct usage of an external symbol, we must spend as much time teaching him how to fission and reassemble external grammar to communicate the internal. The training of artists and creative performers can be a straightforward, almost mechanical process. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.


Changing My Mind, Among Others : Lifetime Writings (1982), p. 76; also in Change Your Brain (2000), p. 72

Timothy Leary Quotes

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must...

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must...

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must...

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must...