artist of the day---descartes

When I was fourteen I became a huge devotee of Renee Descartes. He is often called the father of modern Philosophy and he deserves that title in my opinion. He was the founder of analytic geometry (which is how I initially discovered him.) He is the creator of the time-honored quote-- Je pense, donc je suis----"I think, therefore I am" I knew I liked him when he set about to write a treatise on emotions and he promised to write it "as if no one had ever written on the subject before." .He is a big influence on me to this day as I promise to live my life as if no one had lived this life before. He was also a father of the scientific revolution just as gardega is the father of the social surrealism movement.