Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes

• The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Play, Design

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• The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Play, Committed

  "Play for today" by Pat Kane, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Artist, Play, Opinion

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