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"Left-handers have a higher "fluid" intelligence and better vocabulary than the majority of the population. This is perhaps why there are more of them in creative professions such as music, art and writing."
Dr. Alan Searleman, St. Lawrence University, New York
"I'm sure it's not just chance that Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and a long list of other artists have all been left-handed or ambidexterous. Their genius may well have had something to so with their left-handedness."
Dr Jeannine Herron, research psychologist in neuropsychiatry
There is no "proof" of a direct relationship between left-handedness and the skills required for music, visual arts, sciences and politics, the anecdotal evidence suggests that there must be some significant advantages to being left-handed.
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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Ghandi
A study by French neuroscientist Guy Azemar came to the conclusion that southpaws had the advantage in sports such as fencing because of the "fine and fast" movements involved. Artists may also be included in this study.
" Genius is eternal patience. "
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso lived until the age of 92. There seems to be much debate whether he was left-handed or not.
Perhaps he was ambidextrous as was Florentine sculptor, painter and architect Michelangelo.
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, philosopher and mathematician. He was a man ahead of his time. He conceived a flying wing and sketched a telescope 100 years before it was invented! He also helped us out by inventing the scissors.
Michelangelo started the Sistine Chapel ceiling painting in 1508 for Pope Julius II. He was only 33 years old and lived to be 89. On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Adam, also, is left-handed.
Righties tend to use logical progression while working through a problem, while lefties tend to visualize things in an abstract manner. Some researchers believe that this is why more artists and architects are left-handed.
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"Left-handed people tend to be more creative, more imaginative than right-handed people."
Dr. Brung Brynglson, University of Minnesota
"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
Leonardo daVinci
"It's not the kind of thing you pay a lot of attention to, but when you start looking at artists and noticing which hand they use, there are a lot of people in the art community who are left-handed."
Barbara Haskell, curator, Whitney Museum Of American Art
"I always felt special being left-handed. I always thought it was a special gift. I figured all sensitive and creative people were left-handed."
Artist, Susan Rice
Best known for his Madonnas and his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome, left handed Italian painter and architect Raphael was born Rafaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio. He was born in Umbria and received his early training in art from his father, the painter Giovanni Santi.
Scientists have theorized that brain differences in left-handers may allow them to be more creative and to multitask.
Nobel Prize winning psychobiologist Robert Sperry
"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and color, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day."
Winston Churchill
" I am still learning. "
Michelangelo
Left-Handed ETC...
What sport bans left-handed players? POLO. Their loss!
Some left-handed actresses
Carol Burnett, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker and Julia Roberts.
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