Stravinsky, or it may involve the unfolding of an old, established form with a total freshness-e.g. Bach and the fugue. Creativity is not a skill, it is not a sort of muscle of the brain, or a technology of the mind. Creativity makes use of knowledge and skill but that is not where its roots lie. I have always felt that creativity is perfectly natural.
Creativity is the essence of life, of evolution, of consciousness, of nature and of matter.
Imagine creating a world of your imagination and playing with it for hours on end. It is hard to stop creativity in a young child. Creativity is an energy that constantly bubbles out of a child, even if he or she is forced to sit at a school desk for hours on end. You can't make your child creative, it simply is creative. The most difficult thing in the world is to get out of the way and let this creativity happen.