Genetics?

So where does it come from?  This "ability"?  This "talent"?  This drive to create when others are content to just live and work and exist?  People are always asking me "where did you get it; was there someone in your family with talent?"  So they already presuppose that it's genetic.  Yes.  My maternal grandmother was gifted with ceramics, carving and painting and creating real art.  And yes, my mother paints as well, from time to time.  Does that mean that I won the genetic lottery and my siblings didn't?  Does that mean that one or more of my kids should have it too?  The interesting thing is that though my oldest daughter was "talented" at an early age, she never really pursued the art and so nothing has really happened there.  However my youngest daughter is a fabulous artist, (puts me to shame) and she isn't even mine.  She is my husbands daughter from a previous marriage.  But I feel like she is mine since I raised her.  Did she "get it" from me? If so then it isn't genetic, it's environmental.  In that case wouldn't anyone being "around" art pick it up too?  

It's more than just art, or talent I think.  It has a lot to do with the drive, the ambition to create every day or die trying.  It has to be as necessary as your next meal or your next breath.  I think lots of people have the talent but they don't all have the drive to create.  Without that it's like a muscle that is never exercised.  It had potential but was never strengthened or worked.

To be honest, I don't know what drives me to paint every day, or where the gift comes from.  All I know is that the pleasure I get from creating is greater than I can resist.  I do have the theory that God wants us all to be just like Him.  Creative people.  Not necessarily creating a universe or a planet but a facsimile of them.  When I do I feel Him smiling down on me.  Life is good.