Quotes About Play

girls enjoy torturing, decapitating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they like to dress them up

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

Once there was a little doll. Her name was Edith. She lived in a nice house and had everything she needed except somebody to play with. She was very lonely!

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.