symbolist vs creative person

symbolist and creative person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
symbolist	Yes	No	No	No
creative person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, creative person is a hypernym of symbolist; that is, creative person is a word with a broader meaning than symbolist:

symbolist: a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
creative person: a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

Other hypernyms of symbolist include artist.

symbolist (noun)	creative person (noun)
a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols	a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols