Creativity Is…
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Tags: Ideas & Inspiration, Other Crafts
What is creativity to you? The Glass Door Knob’s Holiday Guide 2007 has interviews with a variety of creative people. It’s quite an interesting read! Seeing as creativity is my main research focus, I was excited to read their responses to the prompt, “creativity is…” Here are some of the more interesting responses.
Meg Werner
Creativity is… the process whereby we gather bits and pieces of life and art and then churn them through the mind and heart to produce something wonderful, the likes of which the world has never known.
Jennifer Judd-McGee
Creativity is… taking the time to notice the little things all around me and, when I can, bringing them into my life in some way.
Julie Avisar
Creativity is… feeling free to explore those ideas that make your heart beat faster.
Lisa Congdon
Creativity is… the generation of new ideas or linking existing ideas in a new way. You can be a creative thinker without actually “making” anything new. What sets some people apart is that they take their new ideas and literally “make” something new with them… something tangible… a piece of art, a poem, a photograph, a film, a chart, a business venture. “Making” follows creative thought, though they don’t always go together. Creativity comes naturally to most people. “Making” from creative thought requires risk-taking, courage and determination.
I like the above one in particular because it’s the only one that allows for creativity in a non-art sense. Science and business can be creative, too!
Alicia Alferman
Creativity is… an uncontrollable flow of ideas and the drive to interpret them.
Susan Lutjen O’Connor
Creativity is… translating the unique way that each one of us experiences the world into something, anything, that someone else can experience – a spoken or written thought, a photograph, a meal, a movement – anything that says to the world, “Here’s the way I see it.”
And here are my favourites, directly after one another:
Camilla Engman
Creativity is… like breathing.
Keri Smith
Creativity is… found in the midst of daily life, explosive, akin to breathing.
So we can all agree that creativity involves respiratory functioning! End of story 
