This document contains quotes from various artists, thinkers, and educators about the importance of creativity and play. Many of the quotes emphasize that creativity involves allowing yourself to make mistakes and knowing which mistakes to keep. Several of the quotes also highlight that creativity and play are natural, joyful activities that can solve problems and fuel original thinking. Overall, the document stresses that creativity and play are serious yet enjoyable human capacities.

1. Nancy WalkupElementary Art Teacher, Denton, TexasEditor, SchoolArts Magazine

2. The future belongs to creative people. Dan Pink

3. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

4. Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.Earl Nightingale

5. It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Creative vision contains a playful quality. John Briggs

7. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

8. Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. Albert Einstein

9. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative arts, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

10. The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative.Marianne Williamson

11. You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou

12. Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. Abraham Maslow

13. Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. Frank Gehry

14. Creative work is play.Stephen Nachmanovitch

15. Whoever wants to understand much must play much. Goffried Benn

16. In art, everyone who plays, wins. Robert Genn

17. The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

18. People tend to forget that play is serious. David Hockney

19. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

20. What we play is life. Louis Armstrong