Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional…

Oliver Sacks

Uniquely Among the Arts

Topic: Creativity, Culture, & the Arts

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, [b. July 09, 1933, d. August 30, 2015]
Website: http://www.oliversacks.com/ Was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

(1933-2015) Humanism, Arts and Sciences
Musicophilia

Sacks, Oliver and Daniel Glaser. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Picador, 2018.

Oliver Sacks

Theme: The Musical Arts