Creative thinking involves the intentional production of novelty (Weisberg, 1993), so you cannot be creative by producing something that you know has been produced before. If, however, you produce something that is new for you, but which was produced earlier by someone else, you are still creative (Weisberg, 1986). Also, according to this definition, you cannotbe creative by accident. If you knock over a can of paint unintentionally and in so doing produce a “work of art” that winds up in a museum,
it is not a creative product.