Braque made this claim after his involvement in the First World War. The definition of art is "the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, especially through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture"; the definition of science is "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment". This therefore means that both art and science are human products of knowledge and emotion. To say that art upsets could be to say that it can upset a person's feelings and emotions or to upset an area of knowledge. To say that science reassures could be to say that it is what we base our laws upon or that it is used as a secondary confirmation after something else as it reassures.
Art and science can be seen as complete opposites in terms of knowledge.
English: Managing emotions - Identifying feelings
Charles Darwin, photographed by Julia Margaret Cam...
Charles Darwin as a young man, probably subsequent...For example, the emotion and logic involved with both, art uses mainly emotions to provide it answers on a canvas or sculpture while science uses logic and laws to provide its conclusions and answers. This would therefore mean that the two have opposites in Braque's view of art upsetting and science reassuring. However, this is only his opinion. There are similarities between the two, if there are many similarities doesn't this mean that art and science could reassure or art and science could upset. Similarities can include theory, inspiration and goals. Art and science both require theory to them, for example the theory of relativity in science and art's theory of what is considered good and bad art, and this can be considered a theory because no single person can make a judgment on a piece of art on whether it is good art or not for the...