The use of the imagination or original ideas to produce objects or ideas that are new. Creativity is a product of the imagination and results from the mental recombining of imagined ideas in new and inventive ways. Both are dependent on mental imagery formed through sensorial experience. (Boehnlein)

Man possesses creative sensitivities instead of hereditary models of behaviour…” (Montessori, Maria, The Absorbent Mind, p. 72) “…we are not dealing with something that develops, but with a fact of formation, something nonexistent has to be produced starting from nothing.” (Montessori, Maria, The Absorbent Mind p. 19) “What is called creation is in reality a composition, a construction raised upon a primitive material of the mind, which must be collected from the environment by means of the senses.” (Montessori, Maria, The Advanced Montessori Method, Volume I, p. 182)