The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
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