The Art of Learning

I think that practicing art is one of the best ways to learn. Perhaps I'm biased. I AM an artist.
Yet, I believe that all forms of learning all use the same methods of learning or understanding that art contains inherently. One cannot HELP but learn through art. Why?

• Art is observing. If your goal in art is to create something believable, you HAVE to know at least a little bit about what you're referencing. You have to know what it looks like, how it might move, sit, or act. You have to know what it's proportions are, and what it's properties are. Even if you are making something up that doesn't exist, odds are you are drawing something that references other things. You go in with a certain knowledge of what different parts of it "should" be like based off of the knowledge you have of what is true about things that do exist. Through art, then, we gain understanding of how things work, look, interact. We learn in what contexts they exist and what properties they have. Through observing we make relationships and gain understanding, and are able to use what we know and use that to help us ask and answer questions about other things we observe as we go through life.
• Art is asking questions. How does (insert object) look? What about in a different context? What is important to me? What might be important to someone else? Why? Why did someone else decide design something in this way? Could it be done better? Why doesn't this look right? What might happen if…. Could these to objects (or ideas) relate to each other? How would putting them together change their meaning? The whole art making process is asking questions and trying to solve them. Even the question of what I am trying to make and why falls under this question. This curiosity seeks for answers, and allows the artist or student (or anyone!) to look and think about everything in life critically. It seeks to understand not only the physical world around us, as in observation, but also why people see and do things in different ways, and how both ideas and objects can relate to one another.
• Art is Exploring. You can never discover anything if you always stay inside the bubble of what has been done or seen before. Art is taking what you know or have learned and messing with it in new ways, putting new things together, and recontextualizing things. It is taking what is known and pushing it to come up with new. It is experimenting, taking the knowledge gained through observation and thinking critically about things, and pushing that in new ways to make new insights and explore new possibilities. Whether that exploring leads to something unattractive and unfunctional, or the next greatest solution, the one exploring has added something more to their wealth of knowledge.

Source:http://www.undermatic.com/diseno/citas-ilustradas-por-tang-yau-hoong/