It’s the same way that a newborn sees the world for the first time: without all the experience of the world as it is; without so many memories to assure you that this is the way things are.

Green is not just green but it is this phenomenon that my eyes perceive which occupies the exact space of these things that I have since called leaves but which I am now trying to see new as if I have never seen them before. And the whole world seems marvelous and sublime all of a sudden.

The same idea can be applied to emotions and thought and all other parts of our experience. This is one means to creativity: to remove all your assumptions about the world as it is while maintaining your mature artistic powers to recreate it.