The paradigmatic creative act is seeing the world with your own eyes, unconditioned by what the “world” tells you you should see, both as the world exists today, and as it has existed in the past. This of course applies to all the senses, and to the realm of ideation. What we call creative work had to begin with seeing (hearing, feeling, thinking) what could be, but was not yet.
To copy others is uncreative.
To ask others to copy you is anti-creative. It is rooted in a fundamentally destructive impulse.
The demand for perfect conformity is the polar opposite of the creative, living, soulful temperament.