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To create is to argue with the void and win, briefly, on purpose.
means To create is to bring something into existence that wasn't there before — to make, shape, or produce a thing through effort or imagination.
from From Latin 'creare,' to bring forth, produce, beget — the same root that gives us 'creature' (a thing created) and 'crescent' through a cousin-verb, 'crescere,' to grow. The word arrived in English by way of Old French in the late medieval period, and for a long stretch carried a heavily theological charge: 'creation' was the divine making-of-the-world from nothing, and to 'create' was something only God did properly. Only later did the word loosen enough to let painters, poets, and the rest of us claim a small share of the verb.
- latin root
- From creare, sharing roots with crescere, to grow.
- brain cost
- Creativity dims when the brain's censor circuit stays active.
- void problem
- Most ideas die unmade; finishing is the rarest creative act.
- constraint trick
- Limits boost invention more than blank, total freedom does.
the creation story — genesis 1, the foundational narrative in judaism and christianity describing how god made the world in six days
creation museum — opened 2007 in kentucky, presents exhibits promoting young earth creationism and biblical creation
the creation of adam — michelangelo's 1512 sistine chapel ceiling fresco, iconic image of god giving life to adam