Is imagination really a necessary part in any creation?

Question

Is imagination really a necessary part in any creation?

Answer 1

I think it is.

Answer 2

Innovation is the child of imagination.

Answer 3

NO IMAGINATION DOES NOT EXIST.

IT IS LIKE ANY OTHER IDEA, THINGS YOU ALREADY KNOW PUT TOGETHER IN A KNEW FORM, SHAPE, REALITY.

WHEN PEOPLE CALL THAT IMAGINATION, IT JUST MEANS THAT YU DONT KNOW WHAT COMBINATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE CREATED THE IDEA.

Answer 4

i dun think so.

Answer 5

without it the world would be dull

Answer 6

I feel it is the first step...

How else would you know what to create if you don't have an idea?

Answer 7

I can't ....imagine any sculptor, any painter, any musician, any architect.... any Man creating from the simplest to the greatest, without imagination.   Yes, imagination is absolutely necessary for any creation.  To imagine the final outcome and to keep imagining the very next step.

Answer 8

In humans life yes. In plant life no.

Answer 9

i believe so

coz ur imagining and want to try f ur imagination can be a reality so ur trying it and eventualy it become true in a unique way

Answer 10

I think it is necessary in any creation that is going to be...admired...

Answer 11

Thank-you for marking some appreciation for my answer to your earlier related question about form and perception.

I'll skip an arduous rehearsal of currently-discussed facts and theory, which would be out my depth anyway.

It is well-known that popular metaphors for the brain & mind have been following technocratic fixations as these evolved. The mind was once likened to a huge cupboard with little compartments, like the desk of a Victorian beaurocrat, then to a telephone switch-board; later, to a calculator, then to a tape-recorder, and more recently to a computer with a vast memory.

Your question relates to the current observation that these metaphors for the mind are grievously prejudiced and grossly wrong-headed. (They can also be gratifying to some degree... but I digress).

This is because all memory is creative,  and every recollection crucially involves the imagination. This claim is not itself metaphorical or speculative; it is the result of many years of experiments of all sorts.

While I may find it soothing to pontificate like this, the question as you set it is stark and enigmatic:

'Is imagination really a necessary part in any creation?'

In order to offer you something useful, I must second-guess the need that prompted your question.

I'm a little afraid of letting my imagination off its leash in here, because it never was house-broken by the last owner (r.i.p.).

Even so, here is what it looks like: you must be an artist or a writer, drawing on a lot of personal material.

You may be equivocating on the word 'necessary' in your question, that is, you sort of mean 'necessary' , as in 'necessary for the production to happen at all', and at the same time, 'necessary for the production to be any good', and who knows what it means to you for your production to be any good.

If this is what's on your mind, then you have science behind you. Suppose you write a story about something that happened right before your eyes, or paint an impression of it. Even merely reporting that event from memory is creative, whether or not you took the initiative and caused the event yourself, or invented it wholesale. Whether it happened yesterday and your recollection is 'fresh', or years ago in childhood such that you must work through considerable decay, your imagination must be involved, just as actively.

I don't know of any rule to predict what will happen if you approach your work this way instead of that, but this kind of question cannot be avoided in the artist's growth.

You will find the answer that satisfies you, and let your imagination off her leash with calm and confidence.

Answer 12

What is a castle but a man's ego in stone?

Answer 13

Without my imagination i would not lasted 5 minutes in my life.

Answer 14

If you are referring to the creation of works of music, painting, pottery, architecture,fashion, novels, etc yes, imagination plays a huge part. Just take the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings writings and  movies which have thrilled millions of children all over the world. And i am sure the billions of dollars of sales of books and ticket collections at cinemas, have made the respective authors wealthy.

Even Albert Einstein who created the famous equation, E=MCsquared, said that 'Imagination is more important than knowledge'. I am sure, too that it took bold ideas and great imagination of The Beatles to take the musical world by storm, and even today after 40 odd years, their records still sell very well. There had been quite a number of young painters between the ages 4-13 yrs whose imagination is so superb that they have created paintings as good as those done by geniuses of the past.  Blessed are those born with a great talent and a good imagination!!

Answer 15

That is like asking the blind to describe what has been created over the centuries.If you have no imagination to work with than you have created nothing but questions.

Answer 16

Not always.

My best sculptures seem to guide the feeling-heart-hand to reveal what is there without my imagining the outcome. I have to quit whenever i begin to anticipate until the shape is ready for surface treatment.

Answer 17

Not really.  Imagination is actually the fusion of different factual ideas which we merge together and believe we made it ourselves.