The aim of this research is to determine the opinions of teacher candidates about creativity and to reveal their perception of creativity concept through the use of metaphors. It is seen that teacher candidates see creativity as creating different, extraordinary, and genuine products. Teacher candidates see thinking skills, genuineness and innovation as features of a creative person. They think that not everybody can possess creativity and that it is a learnable feature. While it has been determined that there is a significant difference between gender, branch and the number of the books read in a year in respect of creativity, it is seen that 4th grade students have more positive opinions than other teacher candidates who are interested in painting.