Able Quote by Donald Woods Winnicott

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

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

— Joni Mitchell

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

— Friedrich Frobel

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to…

— Jerome Bruner

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Adults play in many of the same ways that kids do: by using our minds' eyes to see ourselves in new and different ways,…

— Ben Michaelis

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

— Albert Einstein

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life,…

— Barbara Sukowa

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

— Henri Matisse