Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Children, Creativity, Imagination

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.47, Penguin

• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Self, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.52, Penguin

• The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Block, Mistake, Creativity

• Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Creative

• Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Findings

• As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creativity, Musician, Surrender

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

• Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Loss

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.45, Penguin

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