1. Artists and Inspiration
... of different theories, which seek to rationalise inspiration in terms of a cognitive process. What is generally agreed upon is that creative ideas don't just come from nowhere. The consensus is that innovative ideas result from internal mental processes that are a response to external experience and prior knowledge. (Sternberg, 1998 ... . (Perkins 2001) According to psychologists this explains why, when an individual finally arrives at a solution, it appears as if it has come from out of the blue. "The experience of sudden insight is so extraordinary that it is natural to turn to extraor...
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