Creation happens in the future. Even though it’s made in a constantly moving present, it aims to a point in the future where it will ‘become’. 

Be. 

Whatever it is that’s being created. 

When creating through/with the mind, one can only base oneself on past knowledge and experience. One only has available, what the mind has already experienced, processed and analyzed. 
And so, creating the future with tools and perceptions of the past, is bound to stifle and fail. It’s called repeating. 

What creation needs then, is to be guided and driven by something else rather than the mind. Something that isn’t bound to time. Some other way of processing information, and a whole different muscle for decision making. 

Odd as it may seem, the more ‘educated’ an artist is, the less it seems they have access to that realm. The more they base themselves on past knowledge and perceptions (their own or that of others) in order to try and make new things, the more they repeat ad eternum what has already been done. 

Creation requiers a leap of faith and a whole lot of unlearning, in order to shut down the formatted and conditioned mind and open up to a more effective way of doing.