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In Episode 39 of Art Talk, I discuss creativity & the process and how they are more being than doing.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun!”
Albert Einstein –
Leonardo da Vinci filled his studio with elements that would arouse his five senses: he wore velvet clothes to stimulate touch, changed the flowers of his studio every day to exalt his sense of smell, worked with music to awaken his hearing etc.
Why do I start with a scientist? Because Einstein actually used his imagination and his ability to see, or visualise. He then transferred that to his logical brain to work out his scientific ideas. Hence why science still not fully understands his work. Because whether we like it or not, Einstein’s ability to use his imagination, gave him far more insights than scientists today can see, or even feel by sheer thinking and analysing only.
Leonardo Da Vinci understood the same but used a different way to get into that flow state of mind, we so well know as artists. He used the 5 senses: seeing, feeling, smelling, hearing, and tasting. The 6th sense is what he used when in flow, it is that imagination that goes even further than just coming up with an idea. It was Leonardo who stared into the river, watching the water flow to come to the full understanding of oneness.