There are very old and deep rooted prejudices towards art. For example, there is the somewhat widespread opinion that art, is a discipline of the beautiful, almost as if aesthetics were the natural and exclusive expressive dimension of artistic experience. In the same way, the artist's work is frequently reflected in a romantic cliché composed of unconstrained intuition, almost as if his thinking were guided solely by sudden and striking visions, flashes of dazzling emotions and uncontrollable vital forces. In this simplified and superficial view, the image of art is usually set against that of science, described with the characteristics of a virtuous universe, committed to investigating not appearances but the constituent elements of reality.

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