“Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition.”
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (1986) Northwestern University Press, page 3
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Foreword, p. ix to "Following the Synagogue Service" by Jeffrey Cohen, Gnesia Publications, 1997, .

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

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“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Five, The American Matrix for Transformation

Source: The Life of a Painter - autobiography', 1946, Letters of the great artists', 1963, p. 248

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115
Context: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.