ABSTRACT
The language of physicists is highly metaphorical in its use of such phrases as "elementary particles" or "electron orbits"; physicists have never seen either the particles or the orbits. The artist is little if at all concerned with the elemental structures and mechanisms common to all living organisms. What he tries to perceive and to express is the living experience of individual creatures, in particular of individual men and women responding to the stimuli and challenges of the total environment in their unique way with all their complex attributes and aspirations. Since the living experience disappears when the organism is taken apart, many aspects of human life can be understood only by studying man's functioning with all its complexities and in the responses that he makes to significant stimuli. Human freedom does not imply anarchy and complete permissiveness. Such attitudes would inevitably result in the disintegration of individual lives and of the social order.
