The Origins of Beauty and Art

Beauty and art were also the origin of our species. As we were painting on the walls of caves as paleolithic beings, complex symbolic language was emerging. I think it's the excess of life that needs to be expressed or the or the human being will die in a way. So you put it into a symbol like cooling the fire with mercury so that you can step back and look at it in for a second rather than being completely swallowed up by reality. You have this transcendent moment. And then there you know, we're always looking for the remedy.