“The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.”

— Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely (1959), quoted in: ACM multimedia 2000: proceedings. ACM. Special Interest Group on Multimedia (2000). p. 19.
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Swiss painter and sculptor 1925–1991

Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 20

“Serious art is born from serious play.”

Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way

Source: The Artist's Way

“Having fun is an art and the secret is playing DJ.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Divertirsi è un'arte e il segreto è giocare DJ.
Source: prevale.net

“Having fun is an art and the secret is playing DJ.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

(it) Divertirsi è un'arte e il segreto è giocare DJ.

“Having fun is an art and the secret is playing DJ.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Divertirsi è un'arte e il segreto è giocare DJ.

“The philosopher does not just ‘play’ with metaphors: his play is of a ‘formidable seriousness’, for it is designed to oppose modernity’s hatred for art, to obliterate precisely the opposition between play and seriousness, dream and reality.”

Sarah Kofman (1934–1994) philosopher from France

Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 18

“I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.”

Josh Waitzkin (1976) Chess player

Onthemat interview

“Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.”

Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor

Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, p. 68

“Through play, we renew contact with childhood - My art is childlike.”

Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet

Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged

“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”

John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]

“The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.”

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