Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Science - Art - Creation - Imagination

For some people, studying Science is a difficult proposition. Others, they are generally considered the smarter lot! (This is the general thinking in my part of the world where I have been brought up.) I disagree with this line of thought. The environmental and some genetic factors (the genotype and the phenotype) develop the initial seed composite in every mind and life takes a random walk from there and achieves its own standards of self-established milestones. I think average minds remain complacent because they don't/can't think like Jonathon Livingston Seagull and don't harness their deep desires.

I think that creating Artwork requires a great deal of ability which involves analytics, interest as well as a deep sense of the abstract notion of the idea you try to breathe life into. What makes it more challenging is the fact that there is no proper theory behind art. In fact, the more I read about people with some sort of mental faculty, I find that they are more artists, more philosophers, more creative geniuses rather than mere scientists. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was a maverick, a creative genius, a scientist, an engineer and one of the greatest painters of all times.

Commerce and Economics govern the financial stability of nations and its individuals - this has given rise to policies that indirectly promote pressures on individuals to become rational machines and just exist in this beautiful world without any regard to one's intellectual and artistic abilities. This has led to regional instabilities and we see a drift in power-shift across time and regions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge(Einstein) and art is imagination. I just wish to be a creative person in life!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good one :) Keep blogging...and I say do elaborate a bit more on this one