Why Are Artists And Writers Similar?

This article will discuss how are artists and writers most similar.

The aptitude and talent in art are similar to the artistic talent and skill that musicians have. There is a certain kind of artist who feels that the feelings and ideas that they have could be realized in art and it is just for them that they want to create a piece of art that expresses those feelings and ideas.

Artists see things in different ways and there is a different artistic technique that can help people understand the other part of who they are.

Everyone's brain is different, but one of the best ways to understand how a given individual thinks is to look at the way they interpret art or the way they write.

One of the ways of interpreting art is through the subject and content, but another is by the execution. Because humans are ultimately just complex pattern-recognition machines, each person can read something and experience it on a fundamentally different level.

The DNA Of Art

There's no precise equivalent to the way our brain functions, which is part of the reason art can seem so mysterious. That said, the way we interpret an art piece does correspond closely to the way our brain operates.

Here's a quick review of the most prominent components of our brain's most basic neurological structure, the neocortex:

• Neurotransmitter production
• Electrochemical transmission

The neocortex is also responsible for mental processing, abstraction, memory, emotional interpretation, risk perception, and motor control. When it comes to artistic process, we're talking about the same thing.

In a sense, art is simply a sort of a stream of thought. People have different conceptual frameworks, but they're all working off the same information.

When we see, hear, or read an image or a piece of music, we're taking in the information and interpreting it. An artist interprets that information, and that's what produces the work we love.

So, let's take a look at the ways each of these aspects of our brains works in tandem with one another.

1. Neurotransmitter Production

Inherent to both artists and writers is a need for creativity. A common manifestation of creativity is the need for new, innovative ideas, and that's what art reflects.

Imagine a day when the only food on your plate is pizza. Now, maybe that's a wildly unrealistic situation, but at the same time, if that pizza is on pizza night, then you'll definitely be in the mood for pizza that night.

Similarly, when you see a new idea, it's like a drug, and you want to experience that drug all the time. When you want to be creative, you need new, creative ideas, and the more ideas you have, the better you'll be at that creativity.

In general, we're creatures of habit, and what we like tends to get easier for us to do over time. Take grocery shopping as an example. Every Tuesday is Lettuce Day.

If you go to the grocery store and there's no lettuce on Tuesday, you might get annoyed. At the same time, if you don't grocery shop on Tuesday, that leaves you with no lettuce for the rest of the week.

When you know that Tuesday is lettuce day, you can take it for granted, and that helps make it easier to achieve. Similarly, artistic pursuits, and particularly creative writing, generally thrive when they remain stagnant for long periods of time.

The more you keep at something, the easier it becomes for you.

This is why it's so important to commit to creative projects. Art requires time and patience, and if you're unwilling to commit, then you'll probably never get better.

It's not that art is an easy art to do, but because it's an interactive, participatory medium, the more you participate, the more you can feel the whole body of work come together, and the better it will be for everyone.

2. Electrochemical Transmission

This is the system by which art and other information is processed. As I explained earlier, art's job is to reflect life's various sensations and emotions.

In this sense, the information that the brain processes is all related to the function of the body.

Think about a party. There are a lot of people there, and they're all drinking alcohol. Everyone in attendance is engaged in socializing and has their minds occupied with the feelings of the moment.

Once it's all over, however, the effects wear off. Everything you remember or saw has been processed by your brain, and you won't be fully aware of it for a while.

In the same way, we receive and process information by consuming sensory experiences. Your senses come in three flavors: your senses of sight, hearing, and smell.

These things take up a lot of your attention, and they're all primarily related to the function of your body. Once you get beyond your sensory limitations, your brain is free to process other sensations that it doesn't process on a regular basis.

For example, when you drive, you're engaging in another type of sensory experience. You're concentrating on your immediate surroundings, and your brain is processing all the information from your vision, your hearing, and your smell.

This kind of thinking is the antithesis of what's done on a TV or computer screen, where the whole goal is to take you into a completely different world, and you can only access it by immersing yourself in it.

The point is that art involves engaging with sensory information, and this works in two different ways. It allows us to build experiences with as many senses as we can, and at the same time, it allows our brains to do more sophisticated processing with the information that it processes.

The brain doesn't do this with television. It only does this with art.

It takes a while for your brain to process sensory information, which is why it's common for artists to "go to the dark side" and create things that are highly challenging to understand, much like the stories of Dante and Shakespeare.

Those who see art for what it is, and allow themselves to be sucked into the experience that it creates, rather than as a tool for trying to escape reality, often find themselves more moved and more responsive to it than those who see it as a lesser experience.

In other words, those who approach art the same way that we approach a conversation or a party, often find themselves engaged more deeply in the process of creating the art, and the results are generally better.