"Creativity is the Ability to Play" — CJ Chilvers
www.cjchilvers.com/blog/putting-it-very-crudely-creativity-is-the
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Putting it very crudely, creativity is the ability to play. And, to be able to turn that facility on and off when necessary. This makes perfect sense to me. Everything I've ever written, created or discovered artistically has come out of playing.