CREATIVITY (kree-ey-tiv-i-tee)
1.the state or quality of being creative.
2.the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
3.the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
Creativity is a bizarre, often misunderstood concept. It is typically classified as a sort of mystical enemy to the relatively boring world of logic. In reality though, creativity is more of a friend to logic. In fact, the two have a rather codependent relationship. Creativity allows us to come up with new ideas and make connections between preexisting ones. Logic guides the process and directs it towards a fruitful end.
Although it is commonly associated with art, creativity is involved in every type of thought, whenever we think in an innovative way. In art. There is another, more enigmatic aspect of creativity that can yield some truly wonderful results – imagination. Our minds have the marvelous ability to experience fabricated sensations of things that aren’t really there.
Essential to both the creation and experience of art, imagination takes us temporarily out of our immediate surroundings. During this, we gain new experiences that become assimilated into our conceptual network. In this way, our creative connections grow. In art, creativity and imagination are free to run wild and reach their full potential.
Where do our invaluable mental powers of creativity and imagination come from? The mind? Our surrounding? Our family and friends? Nature? God?
How is imagination involved in the experiences of art?
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