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What is the essential difference between art and science?

Art is the intimate expression of the heart, while science is the objective observation of the world; one transforms reality, the other merely records it.

— Osho
According to Osho, science is impersonal, objective, and reproducible - it follows laws regardless of who observes or acts; it is like a camera or boiling water at 100 degrees. Art is intimate, intuitive, and subjective - an inner vision projected outward, like Van Gogh or Picasso transforming reality; a painting is poetry, not reproduction, shaped by the artist's heart and unique criterion.

Science measures what's the same for everyone; art shares what feels true inside one person.