You have, no doubt, had the experience of being your "most creative" in a certain place. Maybe on a mountain top. Maybe in the show. Maybe in the car after a concert. But we know that creativity never "stops." So these paces are not where you are most creative but rather, they are the places that look most familiar in the light of your pure focus.
You recognize familiar shapes and there is an emotional reaction. You probably have experienced the wild eyed fear of the frightened mind, maybe in the dark of your house or in an unfamiliar hotel room, or on an abandoned street. But this is still creativity at work, your light just happens to be illuminating the unfamiliar instead of the familiar when you touched a quiet space.
There are two types of physical spaces: human and natural. Human-made physical spaces have a utility, or a combination of utilities. For example, we recognize a cathedral or mosque as being a sacred space but the sanctity of these spaces is a construct of our minds that recognizes the utility of the space. Therefore, the only variable is your emotional state.
At this point, we may ask, "did emotions create the relationship to the space or did the space cause the emotions?" Physical spaces do neither. The mind assigns emotional values to arbitrary spaces and times. Our environment, from before we are born, is merely the carapace in which we travel. It is the quiet space that catalyzes emotional memories into a creative flow.
As artist we must struggle with a communication issue, that all creative pursuits are observed externally, rather than internally. By this I mean that the viewer experiences the art as an outsider. Perhaps the one creative pursuit that isn't observed externally is urban architecture, but even then, the observer knows the environment to be unnatural and therefore subject to interpretation.
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