Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

The sentence frames creativity less as a rare gift than as a cluster of dispositions: curiosity (openness to stimuli), flexibility (willingness to revise), persistence (staying with problems), and independence (resisting convention). The “spirit of adventure” suggests risk-taking—entering the unknown without guarantees—while “a love of play” points to experimentation for its own sake, where discovery happens through trying, failing, and recombining. Read this way, the quote argues that creative achievement depends on temperament and process as much as on technical skill: the artist remains childlike in exploratory energy but disciplined enough to continue when novelty wears off.