Creativity is a hot topic today, whether in the context of Business, Technology or the Arts. And while there are many aspects to creativity, there is certainly one we admire most in creative people: "Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different" (Cave, para 1) In striving to define what is the essence of creativity, we are faced with the many areas in which we see creative expression. Sometimes we look at an artist that has made something spectacular out of industrial rubbish, and we think that is the definition of creativity. Other times we look at a painting by a renaissance master, for example the way in which Michelangelo was able to paint the scenes on the curved ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and keep them in the proper perspective, and say that is true creativity. In my experience, it is both, but I think the emphasis is on the former. Creativity is n
ot so much making something new as it is recombining the old. People often talk about creativity in terms of artistic expression, and while this is an important manifestation of creativity, it is not the whole picture.For me the definition of creativity is complex.
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