Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.

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• Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.880
  Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
• Creativity comes from discovering the new within a structure already latent in the present; respect for what is leads to the most beautiful discoveries.claim0.867
  Alexander's definition of true creativity.
• Creativityconcept0.817
  The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.814
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.814
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Wholeness is a real structure, an actual 'thing' in itself, not merely a way of focusing on the gestalt.claim0.811
  Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
• There is no need for emphasis on individual creative personality as a source of life; the process itself fosters wholeness and life.claim0.810
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.806
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.