Man has always had the desire and will to create (of course when I say "man" I mean "mankind," and by always I mean since his very inception). This should not be surprising considering that God made man in his image. Immediately after God created man, Adam, the very first action we see him take is to name all of the creatures of the earth;
Genesis 2:19- Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature that was its name.
The very first thing man did was create. He created the names of every living thing. Before this we see God give Adam his responsibilities and purpose but the first action he actually performs is creation in reaction to God's creation.
Even today we title everything we do as the most basic form of creation. Nomenclature was the first art! Anything unnamed is mysterious and frightening and so we create as natural instinct for protection, survival, and to define the world. Our first response when we encounter something new is often to ask, "what is it? what do I call it?" because the first creation by man was names; definition. This is both art and science. Science is to discover what is already there and to name it, even if it is to discover (uncover) a process that makes something that did not previously exist. The ability, the function, the possibility of it has always been there. To quote the comedian Mark Lowrey, "A few years back they discovered DNA. I had it the whole time." We cannot truly make what is not there, we can only uncover God's glorious creation a little at a time.
Man will always be under God because He is our creator. Here is a story that was told to me many years ago as an example. "A group of scientist got together and decided that man had become self sufficient and no longer needed God. They nominated one of their kind and sent him to go tell God they didn't need Him anymore. Shyly to scientist recounted this information and God responded, 'If you believe man is self sufficient then let us put it to the test. If you can create a man as I did, from the dust of the earth and with no help from Me, then I will leave mankind alone and acknowledge that man no longer needs Me.' The scientist thought this was fair and reached down to the ground and picked up and hand full of dirt. And God said, 'No, you have to get your own dirt.'" As simple as this story is, we can see that we have a desperate need for God, for without Him, there is nothing and nothing would remain. We cannot be self sufficient.
Man was made in the image of God and in the image of God man was made to create. This is what comes to every human no matter what race, class, stature, knowledge, experience, pain, or deformity. God made and so we make. We do so in a way that the creatures of the earth do not. Because we are made specifically, personally, precisely in God's image. Thus is the origin of Art.
