Eric Kandel : (4)

" A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. " - Eric Kandel

" If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory. " - Eric Kandel

" As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. " - Eric Kandel

" Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art. " - Eric Kandel