The Artistic Impulse

Scientific exploration and explication of the artistic impulse has been named as one of the great final frontiers in man's conquering of the shameful affront to Reason that is existence. "As ever with science, we must be sure to keep a wholly open mind in our investigations as to the nature and origin of the artistic drive if we are to satisfactorily explain away the phenomenon as a sublimated survival technique in this senseless, accidental universe," said a leading figure of the intellectual community.