Some creative definitions:

"Creativity is the ability to illustrate what is outside the box from within the box."

"Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others."

"Henry Miller ( writer) -- The occurrence of a composition which is both new and valuable."

"John Haefele (CEO and entrepreneur) -- The ability to make new combinations of social worth."

"Newell, Simon, & Shaw (team of logic theorists) -- A special class of problem solving characterized by novelty."

"H. H. Fox (scientist) -- Any thinking process in which original patterns are formed and expressed."

"E. Paul Torrance (educator, academic, creativity investigator) --Fluency , flexibility, originality, and sometimes elaboration."

"Rollo May (writer, philosopher) - Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being..."

"Roger von Oech - Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena."

"Carnevale, Gainer, Meltzer - ... the ability to use different modes of thought to generate new and dynamic ideas and solutions"