The scientist and the artist are both concerned to change the world - the one the external world of man's objective relations with nature, the other the internal world of his subjective relations with his fellow-men. The scientist discovers a contradiction in his consciousness of the external world and resolves it in a scientific hypothesis; the artist discovers a a contradiction in his consciousness of the internal world and resolves it in a work of art. Both are creative acts. The scientist extends our knowledge and hence also our control of nature; the artist heightens our social awareness and so advances the class struggle.
This does not mean that the two are independent of one another. The two worlds in which they do their special work are inseparable aspects of the social world in which they live and work together. Moreover, even in their special work the scientist cannot escape from the subject nor the artist from the object.
-George Thomson
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