Maybe it’s how one sees nature as a whole. I don’t see any plan or scheme there at all. There is a process - I wouldn’t necessarily call it evolution - but when it slows down then a revolution takes place. Nature tries to put together something and start all over again, just for the sake of creating. This is the only true creativity. Nature uses no models or precedents, and so has nothing to do with art per se.
Artists find it comforting to think that they are creative: creative art', creative ideas’, creative politics'. There’s nothing really creative in them in the sense of doing anything original, new or free. The artists pick something here and something there, put them together, and think they have created something marvelous. They are using something that is already there; their work is an imitation. Some are not decorous enough to admit that. They are all imitating something that is already there. Imitation and style are the only creativity’ we have. We each have our own style according to the school we attended, the language we are taught, the books we have read, the examinations we have taken. And within that framework again we each have our own style. Perfecting style and technique is all that operates there.