Creative Philosophy

Everybody has a creative mind; the problem is we are trained to think away from creativity at a very young age. Sir Ken Robinson states, “Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Everyone. Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth.” Why is it that art classes are always taught last when you truly think about how humanity has changed over the centuries of existence? Things that were created/invented had to have started out by drawing it on some sort of substrate beforehand. Now, creativity is something that everyone has, but expectations of this creativity is what hinders the human mind from being creative. David Kelley in a Ted Talk titled ‘How to Build Your Creative Confidence’ tells a story of a friend named Brian. He says, “I remember one day my best friend Brian was working on a project. He was making a horse out of the clay our teacher kept under the sink. And at one point, one of the girls that was sitting at his table, seeing what he was doing, leaned over and said to him, "That's terrible. That doesn't look anything like a horse." And Brian's shoulders sank. And he wadded up the clay horse and he threw it back in the bin. I never saw Brian do a project like that ever again.” Its expectations like this that deter people from creating something they have envisioned using their creative mind. Creativity is a form of thinking that allows humankind to create, invent, and have an imagination no matter the outcome. Expectations of reality should no longer occur when it comes to creativity in art. What matters is how we choose to create what our creative mind is telling us to create. I believe there is no end, no expectations, and no wrong answer to creativity.