Abstract
Creativity can be distinguished either as “creativity from special talent” or as “self-fulfilment.”
Inspiration is that short-span of thinking that flits through one's mind when one is at the peak of scientific or artistic creation.
Creativity and inspiration are mutually dependent, both based on extensive knowledge and skills which are conducive to linking of knowledge, forming new points of view, resulting in a leap in knowledge. To develop and use. creative thinking may simulate further creativity. Inspiration may suddenly realize and bring about creativity. Inspiration is a crystallization of long-term hard work, a distillation of creativity.
The role of inspiration lies in the fact that it serves as an invisible bridge between logical thinking and thinking in terms of images, by way of the process from (he image to the abstract, and then again from the abstract to the image instantaneously forming the creative thinking that brings out creativity.
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