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Creativity is at the base of all forms of art and ut is a gift that not everybody have or exploit and it's the concrete expression of our fantasy; we imagine and, then, we create.
Too frequently, instead, we bury the little or many creativity we have under the burden of rules, precise tasks, or the necessity to work hard only to eat a bit of bread every day, without passion for what we make.

In this way, our creativity and fantasy live as two little birds kept prisoner in a cage and, when they sing, we pretend to ignore them.

Creativity is also the gift of creating original and great things starting from simple and humble items. With simple bricks or stones you can build the squalid houses of certain industrial outskirts (not creativity, but simple "social cruelty"), but also the wonderful Dome of Florence, as Brunelleschi did in the XIV century making something never attempted before or the astonishing Gothic cathedral of Chartres, in France, a miracle of spirituality towards the sky.

These wonders are among the best fruits of creativity, but the skill of finding new solutions is useful not only in art, but also in science and technology because the idea or intuition that allows a scientific discovery or a new project is creative as well.
So, I whisper, wondering why the engineers are not artists too; we would have already defeated cancer and all viruses and the first man would have already walked on Mars!

With fantasy and creativity, we can create images of what doesn't exist in the reality with surrealism and abstract art in painting and sculpture and with science fiction in cinema and literature, or to describe what already exists in a new, surprising way, enhancing certain particular and deep aspects.
In music, we make talk our soul to express feelings and ideas with the seven notes and fantasy often has fun in playing a song with original instrumental arrangements.

In our creative inspiration, all the artists are influenced by the works of other artists for which they frequently have great admiration and respect; so, they take some elements from various artists and mix them to create the so-called "contamination" that gives very frequently great results in music, painting and architecture, given that the "absolute" creation or invention is very rare, in arts and also in science. In every artist, there's always a background from other artists that can partially explain his/her creation.

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