The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Analysis kills spontaneity.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
All growth is a leap in the dark.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.
Spontaneity has its time and its place.
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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