Can you have Creativity devoid of all logic? Does logic, in fact, hamper creativity?
I want to know your opinion and your argument. Here’s why:
To me creativity subtracting out all logic is at best, misguided, and, at worst, stupid. It doesn’t matter what you are trying to be creative about; a problem, a written work, a piece of art – all of these require some level of logic.
Problems
Solving a problem is, in and of itself, using logic to come up with an answer.
Thinking out-of-the-box is no just making intellectual leaps to possible answers to the problem. Even if they seem illogical, surely they’ll require to enact the solution.
Written Works
Books, articles, poetry. These all have logic too.
Stories must follow a flow. Without it, authors would drive readers crazy and they would have no audience.
Articles need to be informative and follow logical flow for the same reasons that stories do. Without appealing to logic, there would be no readership.
Poetry is emotional in a lot of cases, but still, there is flow. The poem makes sense to the poet, it’s a vehicle with which to elicit emotion. It’s logical.
Art
I’ll admit, artistic works are the most difficult to pinpoint where logic comes into play.
In my opinion, most of this is due to the fact that the goal of art is to leave the meaning open to interpretation. The artist deliberately obscures the true meaning of their work so as to give others the joy of coming to their own understanding of the piece.
But isn’t color selection, choice of media, or venue a logical choice, one that furthers the goal of the artist?
Creativity can’t exist without logic!
Show me I’m wrong. Tell me how logic and creativity can exist separate from each other. I want to know.
