Innovative personality is inseparable from innovative thinking, which is different from ordinary thinking. It is an advanced thinking process and a thinking form of breaking the Convention and developing innovation. In the process of appreciation and artistic creation, students can get innovative enlightenment. Students' heuristic thinking, associative thinking, image thinking, logical thinking, divergent thinking and convergent thinking are actively mobilized, because art is not a simple copy, but a transcendence and re creation of life and reality. Their understanding and thinking of art, appreciation and creation of works of art can cultivate students' sensitivity to surrounding things and grasp inspiration. It plays an important auxiliary role in shaping students' innovative personality.