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> "but if you miss the basis, your creativity will suck, full stop" I couldn't disagree more. There's nothing wrong with learning from the past, it's a useful
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
> "but if you miss the basis, your creativity will suck, full stop"
I couldn't disagree more. There's nothing wrong with learning from the past, it's a useful source of inspiration and ideas, but creativity is the 'art of the possible', in other words the only limits are those which set what is possible. If all new creations need to live up to the 'greatest hits' of the past then creative exploration is going to be severely limited. There is nothing wrong with making a bad tasting dish if you can learn from it.
- greggman 11y agoI agree with you. I really rubs me the wrong way when people put down new food ideas by effectively saying "things should follow tradition". It's like they don't realize that if someone hadn't experimented previously none of the foods they love would exist and that picking some arbitrary point in time before which experimentation was okay and after which it's not is really hypocritical.