Play Quotes - Page 4

• It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fun, Educational, Learning

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• Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

  Johan Huizinga

  Character, Culture, Bears

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• We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

  Jean Houston

  Artist, Player, Men

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• Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

  Max Jacob

  Art, Games, Duty

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• One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Pieces

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• I don't have a favorite place to play.

  Keren Ann

  Favorite Places

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• It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

  James Elkins

  Numbers, Leaving, Body

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.49, Routledge

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• There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.

  Nelson Shanks

  Men, Games, Trying

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• I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Believe, Artist, Feelings

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• I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Civilization, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.210, Vintage

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• Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

  Wavy Gravy

  Creativity, Humor, My Friends

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• There is for many a poverty of play.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Poverty

  Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.147, Psychology Press

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• Man's most serious activity is play.

  George Santayana

  Men, Playing Games, Serious

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Acting, Common

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Daggers

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Rain, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33

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• What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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• God does not play dice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Max Born, 4 Dec. 1926, in Einstein und Born Briefwechsel (1969) p. 130 (often quoted as Gott wrfelt nicht God does not play dice, e.g. in B. Hoffmann Albert Einstein (1973) ch. 10)

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  The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Women, Humorous

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• The play's the thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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