Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotes About Improvisation

Quotes about: Improvisation

• 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.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Real, Inspiration, People

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.18, Penguin

• Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Mean, Limits, Form

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

• Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Intuition, Way, Action

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.41, Penguin

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