Basquiat

 [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7883067-art-is-how-we-decorate-space-music-is-how-we]

Art is how we decorate space;
Music is how we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Brin

 [https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/and-yet-more-news-from-or-about.html]

Across human history, science - and its ancillary arts like equality before law - almost never happened. Instead, people in most societies preferred stories. Incantations about the world, told by their parents and then by priests and by kings.