Books like Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain are selling millions of copies. Sometimes options that lateral thinking explored led to brilliant victories without such human carnage. You are a creative God, and you delight in what you have created. Artistic creativity is a view of the world, of the arts, of human emotions, which sees beneath the surface, or rearranges components of these into novel or beautiful forms. Truly creative people can get in touch with the 'precivilized' self, the world of the child.
Art provides a path from fantasy to reality.
Many creative people, particularly in painting and music, have preserved a childlike ability to have contact with the whole self, with the unconscious, the very deep parts of the personality that most of us lose as we grow up and get 'civilized'. Illness can be creative. Schumann was liable to dramatic mood changes and this is reflected in the varying level of his output. He did all his composing when 'high' and nothing when 'down'. Freud and Jung went through prolonged depression over a period of years, soldiered on, producing very little, but out of this dark time produced some of their greatest work.