two simultaneously conflicting + complimentary quotes

"Today it is apparent that...scientists and artists are more like one another as artisans than they are like anyone else. For our purposes of discussing the nature of happening in the world of things, the differences between science and art are nevertheless irreducible, quite as much so as the differences between reason and feeling, between necessity and freedom. Although a common gradient connects use and beauty, the two are irreducibly different: no tool can be fully explained as a work of art, nor vice versa. A tool is always intrinsically simple, however elaborate its mechanisms may be, but a work of art, which is a complex of many stages and levels of criss-crossed intentions, is always intrinsically complicated, however simple its effect may seem."

- The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things

“I want the art to be a kind of instrument for people to use for their own benefit. Art is not for entertainment, and it’s not for pleasure. It’s about something else altogether. Art is a tool. If someone, after looking at the work, can see things they never saw before in reality, that is one of the most important accomplishments for me... [What is really important about art is] the possibility to see things differently. The objects are just vehicles for awareness.”

- Gabriel Orozco