In order for us to understand the way a genius is, let's do one very interesting task right now. Let's look at this picture. How much do you see? And what do you see? This of course depends on how you look at it. You can see the contrasts, you can see people, you can start thinking about those people, what they are and what they are doing. You can see tension and even despair. And in fact, just how much you can see tells you how close you are to your genius. This is the work of Van Gogh depicting the night cafe. And let's see what Van Gogh himself wrote about this work. "In my picture of the night cafe, I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself. Go mad or commit a crime. So, I have tried to express, as it were, the powers of darkness in a low public house by soft Louis 15 green and malachite. Contrasting with yellow-green and harsh blue-greens. And, all these in an atmosphere like a devil's furnace of pale sulphur. And all with an experience of Japanese gaiety. And the good nature of Tartarin.". The Impressionist, praising impressions also walked along the path of genius. Now, look at the painting of the night cafe again. And see, how full your genius is now. Do you see more and deeper? When you are next to a genius or a genius piece or work, your life is renewed. You are renewed. Let's look at another painting by Van Gogh. The pink peach tree in blossom. What expressions are you filled with when you look at this picture? This painting was painted in appreciation and gratitude to Mauve. A relative to Van Goghs. Who helped him and gave him painting lessons. Let's read what Van Gogh wrote about it. 'This blossoming tree protected from the Mediterranean mistral with a high fence fills me with faith and becomes a symbol of hope and eager to paint better.' A genius in his art, creates a specific language. And you as a genius viewer, can know and understand it. Now, it's time for us to touch genius through simple forms, shapes, simple drawings. Please take a look at these pictures. Do you recognize who drew them? These are the drawings by Salvador Dali. He drew them of its book, 'The Art of Love.' And the book of symbols by Dali. Let's look at the series of drawings by Picasso. Can you say, that when you look at them, you have a feeling that she can draw like this? Like one forms and a complete symbol at the same time. We can also, easily understand what is represented. Here, in genius simplicity is expressed entirely, laconically and fully. You probably watched, how a small child draws. A spot, another spot, a comma and we have not Just a smiling face. But, the face of Mommy. Pretty mommy. Then the child adds two lines. And, we have a story that mommy is going to a store to buy me some milk. We can give little importance to the child's drawing. Or we can look at them more intensively and recognize character. You can never know the story and its continuation. Our next example proves, that genius is not the highest level of developmental skill. But, the root, foundation, antecedents. Italian composer, Guiseppe Verdi always carried a music book with him. One of his friends said the following. "There is everything in his note books. Out cries of an ice-cream vendor on a hot street. A boatman calls to have a ride along the river. Voices of builders and other working people and here is a child crying. Verdi, extracts music from everything. Even, speeches of legislators he puts into a long and complex fugue." We find confirmation of our statements in the writings of Nikolai Berdyaev, the great rational thinker and philosopher. 'I am inclined to have initial freedom. Love for philosophy for the knowledge of meaning forced everything out of my mind. I had many unpleasant features. Which I released myself from.' From his very childhood, he could feel his vocation to be a philosopher. A genius can see ideas for his future works in everything that surrounds him. 'I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages. In the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. Other things increasingly lose their hold on me, and the more they do so, the more quickly my eye lights on the picturesque.' With our next example, let's touch some meaning of genius as, paradoxicality, uniqueness sometimes strangeness. Salvador Dali, a prominent Spanish surrealist painter and writer, wrote in his diary. 'The only difference between me and a madman, is that I'm not mad.' He also wrote. 'The fact that I myself at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning. On the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition.' Genius, exist in a person. It is always there even though, it is not expressed. It exists from the very beginning. That is confirmation of its antecedents. Now, let's talk about how to practice genius. To practice genius, means a full commitment.' When everything the whole life work. 'Everything is put at stake. It seems to me, that I'm not afraid of being killed by a bullet or a bomb. I had experienced this during the October revolution in 1917 in Moscow. When bombs were flying above our house and explode in our yard. One after another. At that moment, I kept writing.' Nikolai Berdyaev 'Everything that fills my heart and mind has to become a drawing or a painting. The day passed like a dream. I had been so immersed in God heart-rending music all day. The day was over and from dawn till dusk, or rather from one night till the next, I had lost myself in that symphony.' Van Gogh. Nikola Tesla. 'I'm absolutely exhausted but I cannot stop working. My experiments are so important, so beautiful, so amazing that I could hardly tear myself away from them to eat. And when I tried to sleep, all the time I think about them. I think that I will continue until I drop dead.' The practice of genius, is not by chance a process of complete commitment. Sometimes, during your work, some truth can be revealed. I now, understood the task, it was not with a resolve such as men often make. With me, it was a sacred vow. A question of life and death. I knew that I would perish if I failed.. As I uttered this inspiring words, the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant moment the truth was revealed. Now, I felt that the battle was won. Back in the deep recess of the brain was the solution. But, I could not yet give it outward expression. Thus, our examples showed that genius is a dimension of root, foundation and antecedents. If you consider our examples once again, we can realize that sometimes the creator is guided by an invisible hand and everything can become a subject of his work. And the creative process cannot be stopped until it is fully completed.
