I don't have the words for this but. Art and science are always hand in hand.
The perfectionism of artists has them researching stuff in a way that only scientists can compare. Some artists become experts in biology or anatomy. Other special interests have them going down rabbit holes to make them better at their art.
Disney animators said "we are perfecting the code for this snow if it kills us" and researched and invented code until it acted like real snow in Frozen and snow scientists were like hey. Did we just fucking solve the Dyatlov Pass mystery. And the animators answered no. We made snow. YOU applied the knowledge and did the experiments to solve what could have happened at Dyatlov Pass.
And it was a team effort because of course it was. You can't have art without science. And you can't have science without art.
Many times, artists and researchers come from the same fundamental passion.
A deep, intense, reverent love for the world — or at least some aspect of it.
A love for the way snow falls and birds call and water flows and trees grow and the sun shines and words rhyme and the universe spins and people live.
The love of an artist for their subject is just the same as a researcher's for theirs.
They say to be loved is to be known.
So naturally those that love the world would seek, in some way, to know it.
