Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. John Updike Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. There's a fine line between genius and insanity.