creative? never say your not! got it!

"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

an interesting statement, tho i think this is far too linked to artistic creativity such as drawing. creativity can be solving a problem yet as i said in my previous post about john wayne if your trying to do something that is different from what youd normally do in my eyes your being creative. in the case of this your rearranging what you know in order to get a desired result and in this case its not always a case that you dont know the result. it is solving a problem but theres a difference between that and asking a question.
for instance you know a road leads home but the problem is which side of the road to walk on instead of not knowing which road to get home. creativity to me is more a question of how do i feel like doing this rather than solving the problem directly and on many occasions the long road is the more creative one home.

if i wanted to draw a picture of a monster and i had a picture of it in my head how is drawing it finding out what i dont know, yes if i wanted to think of a monster and i did, that would be solving a problem and knowing how that monster will look therefore ive found out what i didnt know, but say the idea came to me one day out of the blue and i was never asking the question how should this monster look? it would be creative but even then wouldnt be problem solving.