I see artists as being fountains of originality--and the problem is when art is unoriginal, cookie cutter art---duplication--nothing fresh--stale, humdrum, unemotional because overdone and hackneyed.

Well, I did once say that I like to have a peaceful relationship with the dead, but, the end of that description started to sound like you were talking about Bach!

...words have only an evolutionary function.

This seems to Define creativity quite nicely.