Yes definitely, and for the same reason that science is creative. It requires the process of seeing. Emotions are manifested. There is visual stimuli and it takes creativity to perceive it in a certain way. Summary of all answers to question 4 5.
Emotions play a very important role.
Artists aren t hindered by a necessity to have a reproducible result. They don t have to prove anything. Emotions in science are kind of repressed. In the scientific process, they play a minimal role. Summary of all answers to question 5 6.