"I don’t think contemporary science has demystified the world at all; I’d argue the opposite. Look at the first deep-field photographs from the James Webb telescope, taken only three years ago. Is there anything more sublime? Science has always been my main entry into a sense of the mysterious. It opens up big-picture questions about nature and the human condition. But because quantifiable data can’t answer the big questions alone, artists—like philosophers, spiritual teachers, and mystics—will always be important. I think artists take the immeasurable experience of being human and rephrase the questions as existential ones. Like Bruce Naumann said, “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.”

-  Emily Weiner