You Are Creative Whether You Like It Or NOT

Dennis Yu

Art and Society Essay

12/1/15

There are many people who believe they don’t have creativity and isn’t able to change that. Everyone is unique, some may to more creative than others but everyone is creative in their own way. Being creative isn’t just about having a talent in painting or able to think of poems and many people think being creative is just such painting and poems, but it’s so much more. Being creative is adding your ideas on anything, using your imagination to change a feature is being creativity. Everyone makes unique decisions in life that they won’t even realize they are being creative. Most people doubt that they have creativity in them but later on they will find out that they have creativity ideas and the only thing stopping them is themselves.

This idea about people not believing they are creative is important to me because I was/am one of those people. I always assume I was a simple person and didn’t have any creativity in me, but I was wrong. Even though I didn’t see it at first, Professor Dahlia Elsayed did. The reason I believe that I wasn’t a creative person is because I didn’t have amazing ideas or any artistic talent, but being creativity wasn’t just about that and I realized it later on. This is why this topic is important to me, letting other people who has a similar way of thinking they are creativity if they try. Everyone is creative and even the little things such as deciding what to wear for the day or posting a picture on social media. You don’t realize it but the everyday decisions count as creativity.

To show people that they are creative is simple but difficult, having a big banner with the words “You Are Creative Whether You Like It Or Not” but the difficult part is having them believe what they just read. The words that are written on the banner would be just the outline of the letters. The banner will be hung on the wall of the room arms reach so people are able to add their own creativity ideas on it. Anybody is allowed to add anything they want on it to make the banner more creative and artistic. It would be on a large piece of paper, black outlining of the letters, and color pencils on the side where you can spread  your creativity throughout the paper.

The banner would be hung up on the wall of an art classroom so as soon as you walk in the classroom, you are able to see it. I chose the wall because the first thing everyone does when they walk inside the room is look around. The banner should be the first thing for them too see so that they can think about the quote. This banner will be impactful because there are many people who don’t think they are creativity enough when they actually have great ideas. This banner is for them to be more open about being creative and let them express what they want. It is meant for everyone to see, it should make the audience rethink about themselves. This banner will reach out to people who doubt themselves, make them realize their imagination is much more creative then they think. First they walk into the classroom and see this big banner that says, “You Are Creative Whether You Like It Or Not” and think to themselves about how they feel towards this saying. While they think about being non creative, other people will start talking about the banner and then start a conversation about their imagination. Then those who doubted themselves about their creativity will draw or sign anything on the banner with their unique symbol.

I hope believe will start believing in themselves more about sharing their unique ideas and stop thinking that they aren’t creative. Everyone is creative in their own way and I want them to know that and to show others how creative they can be. I am one of those people who need to believe in myself more and stopping doubting my creativity. So I hope others who have thought to themselves as a non creative person, they changed their mind about themselves after they have seen the quote. They have to focus on their thoughts and express their creative side to show people how they think art is to them. Believing in yourself and show your creativity to the people around you.