What is creativity?The simple curvature of lines, ink lacing with parchment, pen synchronizing with entangled thoughts. The caress of brushstrokes, kissing canvas and leaving a vestige of vibrant hues in its wake. Swirling, weaving, crafting, creating. Portraying the artist’s caricature of our known reality and vitality with an adept hand in the art of ingenuity. The soft and sonorous cadences, oftentimes cacophonies, that render from the horns of instruments, vibrating in our ears and eliciting emotions buried deep within.
They are only lines, colors, notes, sounds, dots and dashes. Yet, they awaken the constant spiral of epiphanies and revelations within us. They are powerful. Dark. Dense. Enriched in experience. Cloaked with desire and wisdom. We empathize, sympathize, appertain to those words, those colors, those sounds. They activate the mind and stir the soul. Evoke the barred memories, elicit the vulnerable emotions. Capture the spirit. Enthrall the mind. Nothing orthodox could prompt such things. Only creativity. Creativity is a yearning. A desire to break away from traditional ideas and cultivate something unconventional. We thrive on the eccentric, bold, disparate ideas formed from those creative, peculiar minds. It’s intriguing to escape our own mundane existence to indulge in other’s creative works, or our own. For it is evident everywhere. Writers, musicians, students, scientists, teachers, and so forth, all use their creative minds to separate from the orthodox and be original. It’s necessary for society. We must be imaginative. We must create. The common misconception is this: being creative is defined by being completely unconventional. Of course, this is being creative, but most ideas become individual and prominent from the original concept that acted as a catalyst, setting the artist’s mind into motion. We are exposed to the world and all the ideas that it possesses, thus we can’t avoid being inspired by a myriad of the things we view. No idea is completely original. It always has a fragment of something else attached to it. Yet, it can still be contemplated, renewed, and constructed into a differentiating idea, concept, or invention. It can be anything. It can consist of anything. It’s all perspective. Creativity is in the eye of the beholder; this is what I believe to be true. The imagination and creative ponderings we become accustomed to are not inherent, innate gifts we receive as infants. As we cultivate our acuity, attain knowledge and passions in different topics and ideas, we begin to develop an inventive mindset that spurs our need for a creative outlet. We discover our gifts, whether that be writing, painting, singing, dancing, designing, and so forth. Encouraged by our guardians and others, we pursue those passions and gifts that make us singular and unique. They spark our creativity and challenge us to be eccentric and bizarre. For to be imaginative and creative, we must be different. We must perceive things in a diverse light to allow for the essential creativity to flow. Go create. Go inspire. Break away from the traditional. Be original. Allow your very vitality, your own existence, to be eccentric and imaginative. Eliminate the dull and campaign the peculiar. For we must be creative. It is paramount. |
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