"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Does art imitate life or is it the other way around? If you can imagine a thing then does it already exist? Put another way, can we imagine only those things that already exist? Is the universe a closed set of ideas that are floating around waiting to be picked up like radio waves are picked up by antennae? Are the number of ideas finite? Or are they finite only for each level of intelligence? Just imagine!
The question really is, what is "new"? What's a new idea? A new invention? Or are there just new discoveries? Are discoveries finite? - I mean one could go on discovering newer and newer things. But ideas, inventions? Would their number be limited by the level of our intelligence or by our imagination? Is our imagination limited by our IQ? (I know people with humungus IQs but who have little imagination and even less patience with those who have it!)
Albert Einstein once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and Bertrand Russell said that "Science may set limits on knowledge but should not set limits on imagination."
No limits! Just let your imagination free...but, like with every freedom exercise responsiblity for, to paraphrase Goethe, nothing is more obnoxious than imagination without taste.
Does art imitate life or is it the other way around? If you can imagine a thing then does it already exist? Put another way, can we imagine only those things that already exist? Is the universe a closed set of ideas that are floating around waiting to be picked up like radio waves are picked up by antennae? Are the number of ideas finite? Or are they finite only for each level of intelligence? Just imagine!
The question really is, what is "new"? What's a new idea? A new invention? Or are there just new discoveries? Are discoveries finite? - I mean one could go on discovering newer and newer things. But ideas, inventions? Would their number be limited by the level of our intelligence or by our imagination? Is our imagination limited by our IQ? (I know people with humungus IQs but who have little imagination and even less patience with those who have it!)
Albert Einstein once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" and Bertrand Russell said that "Science may set limits on knowledge but should not set limits on imagination."
No limits! Just let your imagination free...but, like with every freedom exercise responsiblity for, to paraphrase Goethe, nothing is more obnoxious than imagination without taste.
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