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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 2
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
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If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.
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Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.
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The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.
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If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
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There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
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In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing... the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one.
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Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.
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If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.
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When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of just anything.
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Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.
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Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.
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We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.
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