ABSTRACT

Western creativity is usually entrusted to the human imagination, regarded as a mental power capable of envisioning eternally original artefacts, while in the East creativity is entrusted to nature-in-the human, what Taoist philosophy calls qi, a spiritual power capable of reflecting the passing changes of nature in paintings, poems, and other forms of art. It is the intention of this paper to explore and elucidate these differences between the Western and Eastern conceptualizations of creativity, ending with a suggestion of one feature they may have in common.

中文翻译：

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东西方传统创意

摘要

西方的创造力通常被托付给人类的想像力，被视为一种能够想象永恒原始人工制品的精神力量，而在东方的创造力被托付给人中的自然，即道家哲学所说的气，一种能够反映事物的精神力量。在绘画、诗歌和其他艺术形式中传递自然的变化。本文旨在探讨和阐明东西方创造力概念化之间的这些差异，最后提出它们可能具有的一个共同特征。