Autism Art Quotes & Sayings

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real time no visual memory means no "pre-formatted" picture in my mind so I go where my hand takes it's like journey that is happening in the moment, hence why I drew these without my lenses on. When I was younger I would draw pictures by "route" which made it a appear that I had a visual memory (cobbling together things out of context and making a contextual image) — Paul Isaacs

My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do. — Temple Grandin

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' — Temple Grandin

I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career. — Temple Grandin

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals whom we would today diagnose as autistic - some severely so - contributed profoundly to our art, our math, our science, and our literature. — Morton Ann Gernsbacher

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. — Hans Asperger

Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~ — Eileen Miller

In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism. — Eileen Miller

Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art. — Kristine Barnett

Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist. — Eileen Miller