Frank X. Barron quotes:

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.