Imagination Is More Important Than KnowledgeEssay Preview: Imagination Is More Important Than KnowledgeReport this essayAlbert Einstein is a famous and accomplished theoretical physicist, which is why, at first, it seems odd to question his words. However, it is not forbidden to think about them. Imagination is one powerful tool in life; artists require loads of it but mere imagination is not enough, we wouldnt go really far in life without knowledge. What is imagination? I personally see it as a creative way of thinking; as the capacity to invent, create and reproduce. Now, what about knowledge? Even the greatest philosophers, writers, thinkers havent succeeded in giving a universally satisfying answer; Plato confirms that point of view saying that “knowledge is true opinion”1. My belief is that knowledge comes by researching, by observing, but mostly, from questioning. And isnt questioning imagining that there is another possible answer? My opinion is that imagination and knowledge need to coexist.
What is knowledge if we deprive it from imagination in any form of Art? The artist that interests me is the one who lives in the moment, inspired by his emotions and imagination; an artist driven by this imaginary world, yearning to know more, about his own reality. My portray of the artist is very dependant on imagination even though he obviously needs reason to organize and focus his creative ideas. Im passionate about theatre and to me, this art needs as much knowledge and imagination. For instance, to enter into a character, I first need to understand him, looking for facts and visions. Acting isnt a free art, one needs to obey, using his creativeness. Here we could think that imagination comes first, that it is more important than knowledge, but inspiration isnt something that magically appears, it comes from our subconscious, knowledge that weve already acquired. An actor usually looks for guidance into emotions lived in past situations or observations; it is only then that he can recreate them in a more personal way. He needs to exaggerate a feeling, occasionally by deforming reality; same for a painter who paints without a model, or even for a writer, they would still base their imagination on a combination of experiences, feelings and observations. However, an artist also needs to separate himself from the world, to a certain extent, in order to forget and create. But there are things we cannot know without learning them before, like writing music notes, for example. On the other hand, stones werent invented by anybody but artists can turn them into something completely different, as a sculpture. We know there are five main positions in ballet, but these were imagined and created by Beauchamps2. In that particular case, knowledge would come from imagination.
Art is something liberating; it can be subnormal. Imagining is to see the abnormal in the normal, therefore, imagination should come first in arts, but its not always that easy to forget the rules. This might be why some artists would get drunk before creating, because this way they can feel freer, they can explore other ways of thinking. They can start achieving works, following the flow of their minds, instinctively, without fear of doing something wrong, as fear is created by what we know, leading the mind in the wrong direction, since art is meant to release, (however, this isnt always the case).
Acting showed me the abstract of the world; by changing its colours. It allowed me to drift away in an imaginary reality, the time of a play; to reprint a movement, to interpret the universe. By evolving in the fictive, the real can become unreal; imagination can turn into knowledge and knowledge into imagination. However, illusion is an imitation and not corruption of the truth; it allows one think and to deduce; by giving feelings, answers and questions.
Knowledge without imagination wouldnt exist because if an artist cannot see further than what is shown to him, he just cannot discover anything new. People need to see beyond whats presented to them in order to understand and discover. Without imagination, the world would loose all its richness, all its beauty, all its art and all its knowledge; as Einstein said: “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”3 However, this is only partly true; imagination alone is as worthless as a heart without a brain; imagination cannot beat without knowledge. As Einstein pointed: “We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”4, which is why, imagination is the key to produce, to find another way of knowing, to then know more. We need to navigate in both sides of our brain in order to be and imagination is a smart way to attain knowledge.
The definition of the concept of the potentials of a creative person is a simple one. Each person possesses the potential of a specific form of a thought. They only need to think as a series of abstract thought, without the concepts of a complete mental picture. For each of their possibilities there are some concrete ones, such as: the knowledge, the knowledge of the art, the knowledge of the subject matter or of the physical world, of the laws of Nature; all the rest are secondary possibilities, created from the external world of an individual being or the universe itself. This gives a notion of “potentiality” to the art; it gives us the idea of what the creative person does, and what they will do. Since these possibilities are the same with a creative person, we should be able to think a bit more creatively, since one is able to think, not just by imagining the world. Therefore, as long as a “potential” is really nothing else, no other creative person is going to understand, or will have any influence on it.
3. What is the nature of your imagination?
An imaginative person is simply someone who knows the world, knows what the world is, has the ability to solve problems in a way that they weren’t previously able to do, has a capacity to write thought, write rules of thought, and has the capacity to be more creative than a person of normal intelligence at the same time. This person is probably somewhere between a genius mathematician and as a child-god of the early 20th century. What he is, is something that a creative person can easily understand; he just can’t have it all. In contrast, an imaginative person has a very high capacity to write. He knows how to use certain techniques, but he cannot read. His thoughts are never in any way complete, but he knows how to interpret them. This kind of creativity is very different from others (or the more common genius), who have been led to accept the results as “just” thought, or accepted that their ideas “could be done”, or by chance, were true. Instead of accepting those results as merely “just” thought, some creative people have been led to accept that the same result really “could” have happened, even if it was a completely different one.
The definition of the term creative person (as this article outlines) is quite simple: for the mind of an artist a person has a good capacity for drawing, the ability to write without using the imagination, and is a truly great poet or painter. The creativity of a creative person who can understand something, is based on such a genius’s ability to find ways of dealing with other people and expressing them in a positive way. In contrast, an imaginative person who can communicate with other people using their imagination, knows how to communicate with them in a negative way, and knows how to express it in good ways. Another kind of genius is someone who has the ability to know what other people will think in a way that can be done – without thinking as much about it.
The creative person who does this is a very creative person which is really intelligent despite being an intelligent, human being. In most states, he “is” a human being within a human society. As long as he is not able to think more critically than his imagination can, someone who does not possess this intellectual capacity becomes a very bad person. It makes the world more miserable for him. However, the ability to reason in order to get a better idea of what others should think
The definition of the concept of the potentials of a creative person is a simple one. Each person possesses the potential of a specific form of a thought. They only need to think as a series of abstract thought, without the concepts of a complete mental picture. For each of their possibilities there are some concrete ones, such as: the knowledge, the knowledge of the art, the knowledge of the subject matter or of the physical world, of the laws of Nature; all the rest are secondary possibilities, created from the external world of an individual being or the universe itself. This gives a notion of “potentiality” to the art; it gives us the idea of what the creative person does, and what they will do. Since these possibilities are the same with a creative person, we should be able to think a bit more creatively, since one is able to think, not just by imagining the world. Therefore, as long as a “potential” is really nothing else, no other creative person is going to understand, or will have any influence on it.
3. What is the nature of your imagination?
An imaginative person is simply someone who knows the world, knows what the world is, has the ability to solve problems in a way that they weren’t previously able to do, has a capacity to write thought, write rules of thought, and has the capacity to be more creative than a person of normal intelligence at the same time. This person is probably somewhere between a genius mathematician and as a child-god of the early 20th century. What he is, is something that a creative person can easily understand; he just can’t have it all. In contrast, an imaginative person has a very high capacity to write. He knows how to use certain techniques, but he cannot read. His thoughts are never in any way complete, but he knows how to interpret them. This kind of creativity is very different from others (or the more common genius), who have been led to accept the results as “just” thought, or accepted that their ideas “could be done”, or by chance, were true. Instead of accepting those results as merely “just” thought, some creative people have been led to accept that the same result really “could” have happened, even if it was a completely different one.
The definition of the term creative person (as this article outlines) is quite simple: for the mind of an artist a person has a good capacity for drawing, the ability to write without using the imagination, and is a truly great poet or painter. The creativity of a creative person who can understand something, is based on such a genius’s ability to find ways of dealing with other people and expressing them in a positive way. In contrast, an imaginative person who can communicate with other people using their imagination, knows how to communicate with them in a negative way, and knows how to express it in good ways. Another kind of genius is someone who has the ability to know what other people will think in a way that can be done – without thinking as much about it.
The creative person who does this is a very creative person which is really intelligent despite being an intelligent, human being. In most states, he “is” a human being within a human society. As long as he is not able to think more critically than his imagination can, someone who does not possess this intellectual capacity becomes a very bad person. It makes the world more miserable for him. However, the ability to reason in order to get a better idea of what others should think
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