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From: Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA (Ken Laws)
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Subject: Artistic Creativity
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Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 15:33:35 EDT
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  "In art, creativity is much more straightforward!  One creates a
  work of art where there was none before."

While there is truth to this, I disagree with the implication that
art, or certainly that >>all<< art, is pure creation.  Most examples
that I have seen are transformations.  The artist sees a scene,
technique, or concept that intrigues him, and searches for a way
to capture the same thing in a new medium.  This is analogy in a
pure form, not the opposite of analogy as was suggested by Col.
Sicherman.

					-- Ken Laws
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