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Beta: They all are necessary. You skip any single point and you will not get a work of art.
Kappa: But you certainly don’t know how to take a beautiful photograph in the beginning, do you? How does your aesthetic goal work then?
Beta: And if one doesn’t have this goal, how then can a beautiful picture happen?
Kappa: What if you wanted to take one picture but happened to spot another interesting subject?
Beta: That means I changed the subject, but I could not just skip it, right? You cannot make a picture of nothing.
Alpha: Why don’t you make “nothing” your subject then?
Beta: You still have to have a subject.
Delta: OK, what if we ask another question. Do these points of yours apply only to art?
Alpha: The initial question was about creativity in general, not about arts.
Gamma: Yes, and we even have questions, whether art is always creative and whether all we asked about art could be applied to non-arts and vice versa.
Teacher: That is right.
Kappa: Listen, Beta. One can be really, really non-creative even with a subject, right?
Beta: . . . Yes, . . . obviously.
Gamma: Can one be non-creative and still have a creative goal?
Beta: You mean one can want to create something? Just want?
Kappa: Yes, and this will be number two, agree?
Teacher: I am recalling that Beta said the idea must be about how to make something beautiful.
Gamma: If we are talking about arts!
Delta: Yeah, we can drop this requirement about beauty.
Beta: I feel like you are going to leave me bone dry.
Alpha: You will survive, don’t worry.
Kappa: Hold it. Number three—one can have excellent skills . . .
Beta: And accomplish nothing. I give up.
Delta: Wait, wait. You cannot have the third point in place and yet be non-creative!