zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance

“What you’ve got here, really, are two realities, one of immediate artistic appearance and one of underlying scientific exploration, and they don’t match and they don’t fit and they don’t really have much of anything to do with one another. That’s quite a situation. You might say there’s a little problem here.”
It’s always a little disconcerting when you read something that makes a sham out of your entire arts practice.