“These interreflecting themes, the prerequisites of creation, are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage, and trust. Creativity is a harmony of opposite tensions, as encapsulated in our opening idea of lila, or divine play.”
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
― Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967
― Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967
“Structure ignites spontaneity.”
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“For art to appear, we have to disappear”
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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