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A brief history of creativity (and power)
Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as the creator but seldom see creator as the literal term for artist. I am suggesting you take the term creator quite literally.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
In its many splendors—playful yet profitable, extraordinary yet universally human, the driver of human progress and the thing that will save us from it—creativity is something of a cult object, something we project all of our desires and anxieties onto, imbued with almost mystical powers, and beyond rebuke.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
The concept of creativity, typically defined as a kind of trait or process vaguely associated with artists and geniuses but theoretically possessed by anyone and applicable to any field, emerged as a psychological cure for these structural and political contradictions of the postwar order.