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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
The difference between artists and people who don't create is merely their attitude to their creativity, whether it is something they want to explore, or not. The idea that some people just don't have the capacity to be creative is rediculous, and it plainly avoids how amazingly capable of reacting to their experiences and surroundings every human being is.
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But see, this gets into sketchy free-will/fate territory. What you're saying
might be true, but it's a complete guess. It's essentially faith in human potential, which is fine, but there's no way to argue it unless you veer off into "practical denial"--like, just believing something because it makes you happier to believe it's true (which I'm actually all for--just not in this case).
The problem is, if someone has "creative potential" and no motivation to use it, how could that person possibly prove themselves to have creative potential? If someone has an idea that they're not presenting, as far as I'm concerned, they don't have an idea. You can't know that unmotivated people have creative ideas, and even if you could, what difference does it make? Something in them makes them lazy, which is just as bad as not being creative.