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CHAPTER 4
Creativity versus Talent
Another foundational concept about creativity that is a tremendous
misconception for many people concerns the relationship between cre-
ativeness and artistic talent. They are not the same. Let’s prove it. Look
at the two pictures below.
One is an early Dutch portrait. The other is a photograph of an
onion ring tree and dip dispenser. I ask you to think carefully about
this before you answer: Which is more creative?
It’s so easy to look at the wonderful portrait, the product of tremen-
dous artistic talent, and think, “That’s where the creativity lies in this
matchup,” when in fact there’s very little if any creativity exhibited
there. If this portrait represents what this seventeenth-century gentle-
man looked like, then the painter didn’t create anything. He re-created
the image of an individual in two dimensions, in static form as opposed
Which is more creative?
