Source: The Artist's Way
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Creative work is serious play.”
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
“There is no room for play in Islam … It is deadly serious about everything.”
Speech in Qum, as quoted in Portrait of an Ascetic Despot, Time, January 7, 1980, 2007-02-02 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923857,00.html,
Attributed
“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”
Variants: It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Book I, Ch. 23
Attributed
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
