Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” However, to me, there can’t be imagination without knowledge. What is imagination but a manipulation of the real world? If one considers imagination as creativity, creativity is then a manipulation of the outside world. The sources of creativity are the things around us. It is nature, it is machines, and it is people.
Artists and designers put the world into their creations. They use leaves, branches, cups, trash, and almost anything they could find. They find inspiration from the forms and colors. They take the beauty they see in these thing and they try to enhance it through their work.Take Deborah Butterfield, an artist from UC Davis who took with her, her experiences with horses and made it her art. Using different mediums such as wood and steel that she found inspiration from, she created sculptures of horses. However, unlike other artists she found more inspiration in the tranquility of the horses and chose only to create her sculptures with a resting pose. The horses were never galloping or jumping but always calm and still. She saw the beauty of the horse in such poses and chose that to be the subject of her work.
Inspiration usually takes the form of appreciation. Artists and designers are inspired by the beauty they see in life. They take these forms of beauty and tries to show it to the world, enhancing it so that the audience can appreciate the same thing they are.
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