Can Creativity be Taught?

April 9, 2026

There’s many people that I encounter throughout my life that have struggled with creativity. I've been asked countless times how I'm able to produce my art and I always have trouble finding a way to explain how to be creative to someone. How do you teach something that we all already know? 

This is something we are all born with, ever since we could form a thought - our minds were running wild with ideas. Think of all the scribbles that were drawn on to anything but paper, the young mind yearns for a creative outlet. I think we lose track of this as we grow up and our focus diverts itself from the artistic medium to a more socially acceptable adaptation. Art has always been a part of us, yes but it's not easily accessible, it's seen as a high-class hobby, it sells for high numbers and the chances of you making it are slim. In fact, most art isn't appreciated until after death. This doesn't mean that it wasn't good but rather, I'd say, misunderstood. Which happens with almost every piece that is produced because that's the biggest thing about being creative and introducing a piece of your brain to the world. You can't create for an audience, you have to create for you. 

As we grow up though we lose this independent thinking and gradually step into a world of boxes. Stepping out of that box is the part of creativity that I think can be re-learned, I say re-learned because it only takes a moment to remember the imagination you once had. Which comes in learning how to get out of that single file line and quit running against time, living in your own world opens a door of tremendous capabilities. It doesn't matter what your creative outlet is, it could be writing, instrumental, drawing, baking, there are so many ways to be creative that most people don't even realize that they secretly are. It's only a matter of time before something sparks that fire in you. 

So, in bringing this to a conclusion, I don't think creativity can be taught at all, rather it needs to be found. This is a monster that's asleep in all of us, one we are meant to awaken. All it takes is taking the time to appreciate the world around you. Go outside, touch the grass, chase the butterflies, get filthy drunk and dance till the sun comes up, start collecting physical media, love like your hearts have never been broken, peel pomegranates with careful hands, the more you indulge yourself into anything you're doing the more you notice there is creation in everything. This is when I started to notice that brush strokes as a painter are so crucial, every line has a purpose and they all work together to create a vision that can be seen from every perspective imaginable. When will you change yours?