"The pleasure of learning is an important ingredient in the productive sciences. Contemplation or the actuality of knowing is the prime component of eudaimonia which is the goal of the practical sciences. Truth and knowledge are the direct aim of the theoretical sciences.
The desire for knowledge, which Aristotle thought to be part of every man's nature...was the dominant aspect of his own personality."
from "Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction" by Johnathan Barnes
"We delight to contemplate things...which in themselves would give us pain, because in them we experience a pleasure of learning which outweighs the pain"
paraphrasing Aristotle in "I Am Half-Sick of Shadows" by Alan Bradley
Painting is "The School of Athens" by Italian painter Raphael. There, see?
"Bite-Sized Literature" gives you art too.
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