"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes because it enables your brain to formulate new ideas about everything that is going on around you. If people didn't make mistakes they wouldn't learn what to do and what not to do.. they would just do; running around with no rhyme or reason, which would just be complete chaos. If that happened I think that people would not be able to form relationships with each other or anything for that matter. Things would not have meaning, because people wouldn't be able to distinguish what is good from what is bad, what is exciting or sad. Basically people wouldn't be able to appreciate life and what they personally are capable of, because if you are afraid to take risks and make mistakes you limit yourself to only doing what you know. And technically you really wouldn't know much at all if you spent your life not making mistakes. For the cartoon artist if he didn't allow him self to make mistakes he wouldn't be able to make new characters or story lines because you have to go through a certain stage of trial and error before finding the character or story you may want. I mean its possible for life in general to continue if you just go with the first thing that you decide and assume that it's not a mistake, but then life would be mediocre.

As for the "Art is knowing which ones to keep." Simply, I think he means by going through the process of trial and error and finding options, picking the one that will have the most success, no matter what it is, is art.

This quote can be applied to almost any aspect in life, from creating a drawing or piece of writting to even picking your closest friends and the person you want to be with the rest of your life. Its really an art, you must go through some mistakes to find the people you want around you, and finding them and seeing how well you fit with them is beautiful.