Creativity, creating something new, is nothing more than a way certain people react to their surroundings. This is their way of making sense out of their disturbing influences, and as such is healthy. It can be defined as a method of coping and trying to understand the misunderstood.
Poetry, art, music, sculpting, acting, and most other endeavors can be elevated, and often are, by applying the principles and practices of art to them. Another way of saying that is to say that nearly every undertaking, cooking, sewing, gardening, can be elevated to the status of art by one specially gifted in the venture, and at the same time, in another person remain simply a necessity.
I've long thought that each person has an art sense about them, all they need to do is to find it. It is that something that elevates a person above and beyond the necessities of the day, waking up, eating breakfast, going to work. Creativity needs that too, but it needs that certain something that can only be supplied by those who are tuned to its specifics.
All creation begins with God. He created us in His image, and to the extent that we recognize the source of our creative energy,is usually what separates the simply doing to pass time, from the original work of art. To deny a superior being in our lives is to compare a doll, a copy, with a real baby!
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