All Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotes
- The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling… Baffling
- Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Chosen
- The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. All
- The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. Becomes
- Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique. All
- There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring… Art
- We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion. Depend
- Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. Action
- Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways Capacities
- Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only… Dance
- Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender. Circumstance
- It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us.… Accepted
- Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first… Apprehensive
- Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already… Accept
- If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person… Art
- Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play. Becomes
- We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making. Both
- If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become… Applied
- In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and… All
- Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot. Always Hot