Creativity

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Starry Night Vincent van Gogh (PD)

Second only to language in the hierarchy of advanced survival skills must be the ability to imagine something that does not yet exist, and then make that dream into something solid and real. Just look around you as you read this, and try to find something in your house or office that at one time was not just a dream in somebody’s head. Barring plants, minerals and those things of the earth itself, everything around us is the product of a creative imagination at work. This ability is apparently blown into all of us at birth, is sometimes called abstract reasoning outside of the art field, but nevertheless is the same thing. Businesses could not survive without it and everyone probably engages in small acts of creativity everyday without being aware of it. It is a skill which can be used as a force for good or for evil with equal efficiency, but history suggests that the positive use of creativity is the natural order of…