Creativity is a human ability whose importance is increasingly recognized. Accordingly, efforts are being made to involve her more intensively in the educational process. In this paper, creativity is seen as an ability that everyone possesses, but also as a potential that can be developed and realized. In the theoretical part of the paper, an attempt was made to consolidate the advice of experts for the implementation of creative teaching of art and teaching in general. The idea was to portray a creative teacher who knows how to bring out the creative potential of every student. Although it is very important to recognize gifted students, this paper focuses on students of average abilities. In the research part of the paper, an attempt was made to answer the questions of how interested the teachers are in creative teaching, whether they are creative themselves, whether they encourage creativity in art classes, but also in classes in general, and whether they understand what creativity is. The research was conducted on a sample of 121 teachers (Female=191, Male=2) of classroom teaching in the Republic of Croatia. The research instrument was a questionnaire created through a Google form, and the research was conducted in August 2022. The data were processed by descriptive statistical analysis using the Google Sheets program. The maximum, minimum and average values for age were calculated, as well as the arithmetic mean and standard deviation for the Likert scale responses. The research determined how teachers want and strive to encourage creativity in art and teaching in general. Most respondents consider themselves a creative person, and their teaching creative. Furthermore, the respondents claim that they are ready to put in extra effort to carry out creative classes and allow students to contribute their ideas. Most teachers believe that it encourages creativity in students.