How important is being creative to you?

Question

I love to take photographs, write and make life colorful in different ways, and it makes me feel good to release my creative energy in these ways. How do you express yourself?

Answer 1

After having a family, we truly realize how important these aspects of ourselves are... because we initially have less time to dedicate to doing them.

I feel it is very important to continue making time for personal expression through creativity especially after having a family because we suddenly become such different people and feel like we have lost ourselves momentarily.

My husband is an amazing photographer. Personally, I adore painting and drawing for our family and friends. I also enjoy writing poetry and blogging all of our activities.

Now, we make these activities family activities so that everyone can be involved. Our children attend drama classes, which they absolutely ♥.

It's important to us because it is an extention of ourselves and how we share precious time together. Thank you.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

being creative makes the world less bland that it might be. If Picasso was not creative, where would we be?
If The painters who made the Mona Lisa, the scream, and the painting atop the Sistine chapel where not creative, the flair of being an artist would not exist. The true soul of these people is reflected from their true being. Shakespeare, Picasso, Bach, Mozart, and Homer are just some of the shining souls that have made their own souls shine as a bright example of the world's great diversity and creativeness. Without their creativeness, or any at all, this would be a world I would not want to be a part of.

I enjoy playing the trombone. I also like to cook souffles, omelets, cakes, and pies.Being creative is what I was born to do. It is the primary goal of my existence to bring more artistry into the world to make it more diverse.

Answer 4

I write a lot. I've published stories in the newspaper when I was in middle school and high school, but I'm not sure it's very important to me whether other people read what I write. Just writing and being myself is my favorite part. The stories I write are mostly based on my life - the feelings I go through - even the most personal times. It makes me feel good to write it down, and "get it off my chest" as people say. And people understand me more when I write. I can get my point across a lot quicker and clearer. I was never a big fan of Math and all that complicated stuff. Writing is peaceful and relaxing - and it's like you're making a whole new world, not only where your charectars live, but a place you put together and you make possible, even if it's only a story. I love Writing!

Answer 5

My life goals are centered around creative thought and expression. My main outlet for creative energy is writing and graphic design, but I also creative music on my computer. Games like the Sims 2 and Sim Coaster are great because I like to lay out house and park designs, decide the best routes for traffic to move and where to put all the fun and necessary items. I don't know why, but playing games like these always produces creative sparks and get my brain thinking about things I want to write or design.

Creativity is essential to me, more important than anything else: I won't become an author a screen writer without it.

Answer 6

I love taking photographs too but I also write and draw/paint. I think being creative is very important to me. It helps me express what I'm feeling because I don't always say how I feel. It's better to get it out in some form than to keep it all bottled in.

Answer 7

Creative = my life!
Since I was born until right now, my world is full with creativity! When I was in the womb, my mom liked to give me some classical musics. And at the age of 4, I studied violin until now (i'm 13). I like to write novels and article, that's why I joined jurnalisme class.
For my bro's wedding next year, I'm the one who designed the dresses for the singers! Great, huh?
I also have won some drawing competitions. In my school, I join an organisation and I'm on creativity section.
I'm creative. And my IQ test proves it (19 from 20).
I always look something from different sides. I try to be different in a positive way.

Answer 8

I've always been the girl doing something artsy in the back of the classroom. I draw, paint, create my own cross stitch, knitting and crochet patterns... I wouldn't know what life would be like if I couldn't be creative.

I think if the schools emphasized creativity more and conformity less, they might reach a few more students than they do right now. Some kids need to release that energy, not bury it inside. Art is the perfect way to keep a child's attention.

Answer 9

My husband and I both have undergraduate degree in Art. I am also a musician. We now have a daughter and she is really interested in music and making really amazing deliberate sounds for a one year old! Being creative is being ourselves, so it is the most important thing to us. I don't even think of creativity as something separate and apart from my personality. It's just in there. I worked in City Hall and at a local University and my jobs, while not artistic, required that I be creative in how I handled situations and people. I studied for my Masters in Business but would give up that knowledge in a second to keep my creative side if I was put to a choice. I believe that people who lack creativity are very limited in life.

Answer 10

I don't think I could live a happy life if I wasn't allowed to be creative. One of my favorite things to do is to go to a park, cafe, or other public place and just watch people. I watch their interactions with each other and observe the way they dress and act. By these hints I make up stories about them and write them in a notebook. Other times I've been listening to someone giving a lecture and if it's not very interesting, then I just listen for random word they may say and write those down. Then I try to make a poem or story incorporating those words.

I also love playing with my new digital camera and all the features in photo software on my computer with special effects and clipart.

Answer 11

Well well.... ^_^

Personally, blah blah blah: I play classical piano, clarinet, some guitar, and sing Broadway/opera/classical/etc. I write poetry and enter it in competitions. I write some of my own piano&voice compositions. I try my hand at fiction, but mostly end up with poetic prose. I, too, love photographs, and even try drawing/sketching/painting, althought I admit I'm none too amazing at that.

// What I'm getting at, though, is that creating is my life. I don't know where I would be without my hundreds of pages of diary entries, nor other means of self expression. And I'm inclined to believe that many of us feel that exact way.

So I'll leave you with a quote from Pearl S. Buck which, to me, sums up the inner *need* to create:

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."