Creativity and innovation involve moving beyond conventional solutions, preconceptions, disciplinary boundaries, and assumptions about materials. They rely on a style of thinking termed open-minded engagement: playful, nimble, and cognitively flexible, and receptive to and embracing of new ideas, values, beliefs, lifestyles, and cultures, but in a critical and bounded way. This chapter surveys philosophical and empirical literature to explore how such thinking is engaged and developed through the arts. It suggests that if you can embrace and accept that you may not quite know what could happen, pause on projecting your preconceptions, be open to what the artwork is saying to you on its own terms, you will surely engage more fully, come to understand more about the artworks and artist themselves, and deepen your own capacity for continued openness.