Imagination and Reality

“The reality of art is the reality of the imagination.”

“The honest currency of art is the honest currency of the imagination.”

-Jeanette Winterson

Our imaginations are only imaginations until we express them, then they become a reality. If what we imagine becomes a reality, it is only as good as its artistic value. Thus, if it is truly good, then it will enter the cycle of reuse. Take Picasso or Mozart, what the two of them created has artistic value because people like it and want it. From our knowledge, it is their creations, and no one else can claim them. Granted, people do not necessarily understand what Picasso’s message was in his painting, or even if he had one, but that is what makes it unique, admired and wanted. People like knowing the truth, but they also like being right; by this I mean that the viewer or listener of the piece of art can interpret any way that they please, letting their imagination run, creating an art from the art. It does not matter how many times we have heard Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 Jupiter in C major, every time we hear that silence at the second minute and then the chorus of violins strike up with the marching drum, we still do not expect it and the feeling that overcomes us is a dramatic feeling that the imaginer wanted us to capture in our own imaginations. Once a person expresses their imagination, it becomes an honest reality.