Creativity is the measure of our level of spontaneity.

It is our ability to successfully deliver our

thoughts and often times involves pensiveness. That we can manipulate inspiration create
items “novel” that'll appease and inspire others is creativity. In short creativity in itself is
basically art and therefore plays a vital role in art.

Creativity is not exclusive to the arts but is a necessary component because in art you are not
just putting material together, paint, matter, your body’s movement, ideas etc. (Which are
done across many fields of human activity which have no relation to this activity we call art) In
art, you are doing more than just putting materials or actions or combining ideas together! In
the creative arts, once the material or the ideas are put together, they invoke complicated
psychological, conscious and subconscious process of feelings and thought patterns about some
aspect of the world or the artist’s place in the world, firstly in the artist, and that’s why artists
do their art. But once the art is released to the public it can also set off similar (Perhaps!)
complicated conscious and subconscious thoughts and feelings in the viewers. (But these may
vary from person to person and may not be the same as artist’s original impressions)

Imagination is tied very closely to creativity because imagination is putting things, ideas,
feelings or images together, initially in the artist’s mind. The artist’s imagination may be in the
form of picturing, thinking or feeling what the proposed work of art will be about. But also,
during the creation of the work, the artist will use their imagination to feel, think and picture
possible alternatives to what they have just done, at every stage of doing. The public, in turn,
will perhaps have to use their imagination to comprehend this work that is usually hard to pin
down precisely in words.

Expression is automatic in every action, thought or feeling in everyone. We can’t avoid

expressing who we are in every thought and feeling, but, until we indicate our internal states
through actions others will not know these. Most people are not very good at getting their
thoughts and feelings out in an acceptable way. Artists and poets, it is claimed, are very good at
getting these things out in a way that the public can say “Hits the nail on the head” in these
allusive aspects of being human. That’s why people read poetry, go to plays and movies, listen
to music or songs and go to art galleries; this is to get insight into their inner thoughts and/or
feelings that they may have felt but can’t express or may never thought or felt before; most
people also find this pleasurable. As a final note, imagine our world without music, poetry,
novels, plays, visual art, movies and dance; would you last for any length of time? I suspect not,
because the arts, creativity, expression and imagination are intrinsic to being human and to art!
Expressive arts bridge the gap between the conscious and unconscious mind. When we put our
mental process into a physical form, we feel more in control of our thoughts and feelings, and
we understand them more clearly. We can’t always explain an emotion using logic. Creative
activities allow us to externalize our thought process and observe it from a distance, and then
we don’t have to act on our feelings impulsively. The creative and artistic processes allow us to
merge our emotional and our logical parts into one identity. This is a key step in our healing—to
learn that what we think logically may not match how we feel, and that’s okay. It is a part of our
process. Having a creative outlet where we can express ourselves means we can better manage
those thoughts and feelings. Some feelings are hard to verbalize. Some thoughts we don’t want
to say out loud. Self-expression involves any activity where we can transfer the energy from our
thoughts and feelings into another form.