Imagination and Creativity

Imagination explores what could exist. Creativity chooses something from that field and begins giving it form.

Imagination explores what could exist.

Creativity chooses something from that field and begins giving it form.

The distinction explains why someone can possess enormous imagination while struggling to create.

Creation introduces limits.

Materials.

Time.

Other people.

Physics.

Skill.

Once imagination encounters constraint, creativity begins negotiating between possibility and reality.

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