Break Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what…

— Ian Bogost

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

One play don't define a game.

— Julio Jones

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…

— Ian Bogost

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

A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do…

— Edward Albee

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

— Johan Huizinga

Play is the exultation of the possible.

— Martin Buber