Drawing is to mimic nature's imagination

Some years ago, i was addicted to drawing for a year, the experience was deeply satisfying, rewarding and could bring a peace of mind and makes one's heart sing , it  certainly has theraputic effect. i stopped later as i got too absorbed in it  and forgot about doing 'life' ,  i  lost myself which is not bad but family members would be impacted...

Recently i started to read about an interesting scientist,  Richard Feynman, i admire and appreciate his wealth of knowledge in physics and math, his humor and wisdom, and surprised by how well  a  scientist could  explain complex concepts and induce a vivid picture in student's mind, and raise one's deeper interest in science,  he was a rare gifted science educator. 

He appreciates and discovered subtle mental processing differences among people, he said when someone learns a concept, everyone creates his mental pictures  which can be  different drastically from one to another, so sometimes you don't get someone's explanation could be due to the fact that your imagery generated in mind is drastically different from the explainer's , it is not necessarily meant one is better than the other, it is simply working  differently. Wish we had such a loving science teacher who has deeper understanding about education and human mind, It may change young students'  lifelong pursuit. 

Art is a close relative to science, it is not only science, it triggers emotion and awe feeling, curious people like him was drawn to drawing as well, i love his quote below about drawing, his sentiment speaks my mind so perfectly,  art is to exercise that the imagination the nature has given us, and worship and appreciate nature's creativity and mystery, all animals and plants including bacteria/viruses  on earth  came out of nature's rich imaginative mind. 

In an introductory essay titled “But Is It Art?,”Feynman recounts his arrangement with Jerry and observes the intersection of art and science:

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It’s difficult to describe because it’s an emotion. It’s analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the universe: there is a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run ‘behind the scenes’ by the same organization, the same physical laws. It's an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It is a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had that emotion. I could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe.