"Err, I sorta violated that maxim yesterday... by luck I found a fresh iridescent-blue dragonfly corpse (must've froze the night before), so I set it on top of a rock, photographing it as if it were a live one." Although this is true in the sense that you 'created the scene', it does still follow the same maxim: You neither created the dragonfly nor the rock (pre-existing structures; unless you have "powers" that others would be envious of), yet you combined the two (along with the lighting and other aspects) to create a photo that appeared as if the dragonfly was still alive. Therefore, in that sense, you "creatively" combined the structures and the scene elements to produce art.