Can There Be Creativity Without Emotion?
Can there be creativity without emotion?
Creativity is the ability to create new thoughts and ideas. It is a foundation to innovation, and it is all around us. Everything made by humans was once thought of, and then created. However, the greatest presence of creativity can be found in arts. As we all know, people express their emotions through art. They want to convey their thoughts and how they feel through their pieces whether it is in form of music, poetry, film, painting or even an advertisement. But can a person create a piece of art, without feeling any emotion? One teacher once told me that people start to write poems when their emotions are overflowing, and that this way of expressing themselves helps the artists to cope with everything. Poems usually talk about personal life of the writer. About their troubles, their happiness, their anger. It is filled with emotion from the very beginning till the very end. I am also convinced a good poem has to have emotion in it, as I believe that is what poems are for. However, someone may be able to write a poem about a chair, and not feel a single emotion about it. They just put some rhymes together, and call it a poem. But is that truly art? The definition of a poem according to dictionary.com is:
“A composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.”
I would like to point out the word “express”. People use poems to express, and something without emotion cannot be expressed, at least in my opinion. Every time I have a rough day, I put my earphones in, and play music. As it helps me escape from reality, it calms me down. Music makes everyone feel some kind of emotion, even distaste, if we don’t like that song or genre. Music, as well as poems, has been always used to express feelings and to share them with others. We can feel all the emotions
Creativity is the ability to create new thoughts and ideas. It is a foundation to innovation, and it is all around us. Everything made by humans was once thought of, and then created. However, the greatest presence of creativity can be found in arts. As we all know, people express their emotions through art. They want to convey their thoughts and how they feel through their pieces whether it is in form of music, poetry, film, painting or even an advertisement. But can a person create a piece of art, without feeling any emotion? One teacher once told me that people start to write poems when their emotions are overflowing, and that this way of expressing themselves helps the artists to cope with everything. Poems usually talk about personal life of the writer. About their troubles, their happiness, their anger. It is filled with emotion from the very beginning till the very end. I am also convinced a good poem has to have emotion in it, as I believe that is what poems are for. However, someone may be able to write a poem about a chair, and not feel a single emotion about it. They just put some rhymes together, and call it a poem. But is that truly art? The definition of a poem according to dictionary.com is:
“A composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.”
I would like to point out the word “express”. People use poems to express, and something without emotion cannot be expressed, at least in my opinion. Every time I have a rough day, I put my earphones in, and play music. As it helps me escape from reality, it calms me down. Music makes everyone feel some kind of emotion, even distaste, if we don’t like that song or genre. Music, as well as poems, has been always used to express feelings and to share them with others. We can feel all the emotions