You know C. S. Lewis, whom I greatly admire, said there’s no such thing as creative writing. … He said there is, in fact, only one Creator and we mix. That’s our function, to mix the elements He has given us. See how wonderfully anonymous that leaves us? You can’t say, “I did this; this gross matrix of flesh and blood and sinews and nerves did this.”
-P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins stories, in The Paris Review No. 86 (Winter 1982).
That's the medieval theory of art in a nutshell. CS Lewis was, of course, a medievalist. Creativity was not discovered until the 18th century. Before that, it was a word only ever applied to God.
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