"I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver."

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A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.

— Carl Safina