02-05-2013, 01:55 PM
true true.
"People sometimes confuse refined tastes with a lack of raw authenticity"
I think people often have a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of creativity. When you think about it EVERYTHING we create comes from somewhere, every thought we have has been given to us by those who taught us a language to think in, and those who we have listened to and read.
Creativity is taking two unrelated concepts (that come from others) and combining them in a clever new way that creates new meaning. If you don't have a great range of material to draw upon, your combinations will be extremely limited (hence the amount of cliche in new poetry). COMPLETELY new creations can never happen, that's like creating something from nothing. Its an impossibility, its like having an effect without it's cause.
a great talk by John Cleese on creativity:
http://vimeo.com/18913413
"People sometimes confuse refined tastes with a lack of raw authenticity"
I think people often have a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of creativity. When you think about it EVERYTHING we create comes from somewhere, every thought we have has been given to us by those who taught us a language to think in, and those who we have listened to and read.
Creativity is taking two unrelated concepts (that come from others) and combining them in a clever new way that creates new meaning. If you don't have a great range of material to draw upon, your combinations will be extremely limited (hence the amount of cliche in new poetry). COMPLETELY new creations can never happen, that's like creating something from nothing. Its an impossibility, its like having an effect without it's cause.
a great talk by John Cleese on creativity:
http://vimeo.com/18913413
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