Creative Art
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 Creative art, being based on freedom and originality
Creative art, being based on freedom and originality, knows no boundaries except those inherent within itself and the limitations necessary to quality, which we label unity. It plays no favorites with styles or isms. It is a timeless gauge for measuring art of ancient, modern, or future days, including all significant, creative, and more or less unified human expressions of the material and spiritual world in which we live.
Actually the term creative art is redundant, because no expression is really art unless it is creative. But owing to the widespread ignorance concerning art and imitation, the term is used here as a label for the authentic as against the false.
To create is to select or invent elements significant to a given purpose and organize them into a new and unique form. It means originality. It means individuality. It means freedom of action. The opposites of creation in art are imitation, academicism, intellectual and emotional slavery. Creativeness depends on a certain attitude of mind. It is democracy in practice -- an invitation to free thinking, exploration, and progression. Its opposite, imitation, spells conformity, reaction, and decadence.
Openmindedness, imagination, courage, inventiveness, free thought, and progressiveness
Pages and even whole books might be filled with lists of now-great men who, in their own time, were considered revolutionary and radical to the point of being dangerous or insane, or at best were scorned and neglected. Shining examples are Galileo, Columbus, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Edison, Wright, De Forests, Freud, Pasteur, Cézanne, and Wagner, to name a few.
We can be sure that many such men are living and working amidst opposition today, in our own time. Who are they? On what new problems are they working? These are questions to be answered only by those with open, searching minds. There is no greater thrill than taking part in a genuine progressive movement in any field in which one happens to be interested.
All the qualities suggested --openmindedness, imagination, courage, inventiveness, free thought, and progressiveness are attributes of the person with a creative attitude.
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