Intentions

Hey, losers (Headnote: Don't worry, I'm not going to start singing "Picture perfect you don't need... " Fortunately, I'm not Justin Bieber). Today, I intend to address the fireworks that go on in the mind of an artist. Imagine watching a pianist in an auditorium (like the ones is cathedrals of Spain). The way she caresses the keys, feels the notes, plays with the highs and lows of the notes and makes the audience feel what she is feeling.

Different frequencies of notes with the correct and proper combination, hit your ears and a jolt of feelings gushes through your brain via the heart and to your soul. So in a way, the pianist conveyed her feelings in auditory form, which, her speech would not have been able to. She has the same expressions while playing the piano which she would have had if she were to speak to you.

Let's now look at what a painter has to say. Many great men of art such as Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvador Dali, Monet and many others, (whose works are now just a mere matter of money than it is of looking at a 'bigger picture' and appreciating it), went through the same thought process as that of a pianist. Encoding their feelings in visual form with the same magnitude of impact as any other brilliant artist. The brush strokes, slant (stopping), straight (consistent), curve (freedom), sometimes incomplete (learn to let go) tell us a lot of stories in just a small canvas. It's the elegance that speaks. All of this may seem somewhat philosophical but it does work, and that too, in a practical and a very beautiful manner. Many neurological studies have shown that arts have a deep impact in the functioning of the brain. While listening to or playing music or making or even studying a painting lights up the part of the brain which is responsible for cognitive function and efficiency. In a nutshell, engaging in arts enhances the way your brain works. Many of my readers (just being optimistic) may be in fields of pharmaceuticals, finance, social welfare, science, teaching and arts; let me ask you this: how great would it be if what you professionally do lights up your brain just the way music or painting does? Probably the best thing ever (if you really care about your work and have fun doing it). That is just what happens to a great scientist such as Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking or Brian Greene (as long as they are not blinded by the glare of money and fame, which, fortunately didn't happen to any of these great men and numerous others). And just for the record, the trails of music and visual arts are so ancient and so fixated that when we try to conceive the feeling of a scientist or a physicist, we are faced by a wall of confusion and rebound. We find it challenging to grasp the language of a scientist but rather easy and free to get what a dancer or a musician has to say. For I think that what a dancer says with his moves and what a pianist conveys with her music is no different than what a scientist or a physicist or a mathematician says with his equations. Period.

For example, E=mc^2 (Einstein) says that everything in this universe has an energy by the virtue of its existence. The same way you feel your own presence despite being in a dark empty room. Or ∆x.∆p>=h/4π.π and ∆t.∆E>=h/4π.π (quantum physics-Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) say that whenever you try to reach or know about a particle, you displace it in your act of measurement. Just like when you drop a coin in the middle of a seat cushion and try to get it, only making way for it to fall even deeper or when you try to think about getting a PS4 for your birthday for a very long time and discover that at the end of the day, it never happens the way you wanted it to.

The whole reason to write this article is to try to connect you to the mind of a scientist who looks at the beauty of life and nature in the language of mathematical logic. For every single beautiful mind, may it be of a dancer's or a musician's or a scientist's, defines the nature in their own elegant languages. And those are the very Intentions every great mind has in order to accelerate the pace of human civilisation to a more elegant and peaceful future. Later.