The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas. (p91)

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

The more varied the input, the more unexpected the combinations, the more creative the ideas.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.

One life does not fit neatly into the other always. Creative work is a way to order it.

Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.

...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration.

Now, your great fear in art is that it's never guaranteed you're going to get that next idea. And there's always the fear that the idea you just made that you really, really love, you'll never be able to do it again.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

... the most important questions and insights and goals are unpredictable.