Art Quote by Manfred Eigen

“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

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

“An empty pageant; a stage play; flocks of sheep, herds of cattle; a bone flung among a pack of dogs; a crumb tossed into…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

“Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so…

— Peter L. Berger

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are…

— Leo Tolstoy

The true object of human life is play.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature…

— George Jean Nathan

“There are two sides to each man’s life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.”

— Sarah Ruhl

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability…

— Sarah Ruhl

“Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then…

— Paul Kengor