On Art, aesthetics and philosophy..

Since time immemorial philosophy has tried to bring art into the realms of rationality and the assign the role of cognition to it. Art always claims that its content is inaccessible to philosophy and serves a much higher purpose and value.
Philosophers then coined aesthetics to discuss art and to make it more precise and give it a philosophical form.
Earlier philosophical movements attributed the role of romanticism in art. These movements assigned the role of our feelings, emotions and affects in the works of art. According to romanticism, our psychological states had a role in development of art. Beauty was considered as an apprehension of the moral rational order of things. Beauty in art and art is beauty was the dictum of the romantic movement.
There was then an anti-romantic art movement which assigned a higher purpose to art. Art should be for art’s sake was the inspiration. Teleology was assigned more important role than cause of it.
Transcendental theory of art says we all have a geist (the inner spiritual being) which inspires all art forms. The inner apriori inspirations guide us and help us express our emotions and feelings in different forms.
The naturalistic theory on the other hand says that nature and the external world is the inspiration behind all art. There is definitive role of empericism in art and we can explain our artistic growth in terms of natural evolution of mind and humans.
I agree with all the theories but assign different roles to them at different stages.
I do agree that art comes from within for which we should allow ourselves to be calm. Once we are tranquil creativity begins to flow on her own. It is like being a child; a child busy his play.
However art also needs a language to express itself. An author can write only in language he learns. A painter needs assess to colours in order to paint. Music will need instruments. These instruments and musical forms undergo natural changes over time. We inherit art from our surroundings and our experiences also and how we are effected by them. So, our art grows only when we are provided with basic ingredients for its development from nature.
At the same time, we always need to have the right feelings, emotions and inspirations to produce work of art. We need a sensitive persona to become an artist.
To summarise, all elements including our heart, brain, mind and soul need to come together to produce work of art.