“Creativity, that ardently sought but only rarely found virtue, often is a heretofore unimagined violation of the rules of the system from which it springs.” — Daniel C. Dennett
World has an immense asymmetry of art and creativity everywhere. The whole universe is the result of God’s incredible creativity, and we are the children of the creator. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to the other human beings through communication, art, music etc. Creativity in the form of an art is playful, unconventional, and unpredictable. It is all about ideas and how we develop, understand, and communicate through them.
But how is Philosophy related to Art? I knew this question would cross your mind. Different people have different ways to see and acknowledge art and beauty in their own ways. Creativity has myriad forms. It can turn heads for some and for some it can just be a normal thing. Philosophy is also a customized form of understanding a human nature, how one person will react impulsively to a situation than the other.
Before we go deep into the philosophy of life through the mirror of art, we must acknowledge that the Creative people are Entrepreneurs, revitalizes cities, make things magnificent and valuable. Real piece of art opens our eyes into domains of the transcendent. Beauty is essential for economic development in many ways. How do you become more creative? Is it dedication, focus, commitment, or discipline?
An artist and a Creative person bring the true meaning of life to the reality. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. That is the role of art and artist. They try and create the essence of art for people to access their imagination and find their own form in them. The way, I see art might be different from the way you can see.
When We look for meaningful perspectives of life, we know how we should live our life in this world. I would like to emphasis on three philosophical aspects which are Dream, Desire and Destination.
Whatever we plan to accomplish in our life requires utmost discipline. Once our discipline becomes habit and then that becomes our daily rituals.
Dream: Our life starts with a simple dream. Dream is an essential part in our life’s journey. Without a dream we cannot progress in life. Dreams bring things closer to us. Many art forms help us dreaming and make us feel the reality. To accomplish happiness, we must pursue our dreams with dedication, commitment, and discipline.
Desire: God gave this tremendous ability to long for something in life to the human beings. Once we start desiring something in life, we put everything into it to accomplish. We succeed only when we align our dreams with the desires in a disciplined way. Happiness can be a desire for some, therefore how are we going to achieve that? Probably, appreciating the life’s surroundings. One of the important aspects in our life to become happy is to start trading our expectations with appreciations. Life will be simple. Through the eyes of an artist, we experience these in many forms.
Destination: This is the ultimate goal point in our life. Where do we want to arrive today? What had been dreamt and desired to arrive at this point in our life? A well-defined destination and once we accomplish the goal of arriving at that well defined destination makes us feel the fulfillment in life. The fulfillment in life does not necessarily be the result of achieving the materialistic goals, it is the spiritual accomplishment which lasts long and makes us complete.
Art is life and future. Appreciating and accepting the mysteries of life is just like appreciating art. I feel extremely privileged to see this mystical form of life, also trying to unlock its mysteries is just like a never-ending adventure.
