Creativity is . . .

[Steven Sweeney]

[Carol Norton]

Steven,
Your "Creativity is..." quote is inspirational in itself.
Thanks.

[Ngaire Winwood]

Matthew Fox certainly has found the connection, hasn't he.

I wonder from any of the words written by past masters themselves, did they view creativity the same way? Was it like the essence like Matthew has written about it so eloquently? Does any one have these masters inspirational words about how they saw creativity?

Does the feelings or view on creativity change over time say, from a master or from a student? Do we all sense it and see it the same?

As a student, Matthew's words ring a truth to me.

[John Reidy]

Beautiful works.

I don't know if creativity can be defined fully. The dictionary states-

cre?a?tiv?i?ty? [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-]

[Sharon Knettell]

Mastery and Fearlessness

[SB Wang]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

"Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.

From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.

Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.

Creativity has been attributed variously to divine intervention, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality traits, and chance ("accident," "serendipity"). It has been associated with genius, mental illness and humour. Some say it is a trait we are born with; others say it can be taught with the application of simple techniques.

Although popularly associated with art and literature, it is also an essential part of innovation and invention and is important in professions such as business, economics, architecture, industrial design, science and engineering.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the ambiguity and multi-dimensional nature of creativity, entire industries have been spawned from the pursuit of creative ideas and the development of creativity techniques. This mysterious phenomenon, though undeniably important and constantly visible, seems to lie tantalizingly beyond the grasp of scientific investigation.

"Creativity, it has been said, consists largely of re-arranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know." George Kneller"