Creativity

I have a friend who is a DJ and also enjoys making art. He mostly recreates pieces or draws characters (Peanuts are his favorite). One day we had this conversation:

Friend: Do you have a creative outlet?

Me: Not really, well at least like most people think. I make scrapbooks and I bake so I guess I'm more crafty than artistic.

Friend: Oh yeah, you bake but you use other people's recipes so that doesn't really count.

How dare he! Just because bakers are not artist in the traditional sense, doesn't mean they aren't creative. Music producers and DJ's use beats from other songs all the time. When he makes mixtapes, he uses songs from other people and alters it to make it his own. Bakers do the same, they use recipes from others and make changes to make it their own. Also when he makes his art pieces, he is replicating something another artist did already. Does that make him more artistic than me, when I use another baker's recipe?

Don't think so. No, it doesnt!