Game Design, Art and Play Quotes
One of the most difficult tasks people can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by those out of touch with their instinctive selves. -- C. G. Jung
Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist "Give me the chance to do my very best!" -- from the film "Babette's Feast"
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. --Eric Hoffer
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. --Henry David Thoreau
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. --Friedrich Von Schiller
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. --G. K. Chesterton
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. --W. H. Auden
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. --Henry David Thoreau
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. --Bertrand Russell
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. --Thomas Hobbes
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. --Lester Bangs
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. --Lionel Trilling
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. --George Bernard Shaw
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. --George Sand
Art consists of limitation. . . . The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. --G. K. Chesterton
Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother's face,
Her aspect and her attitude.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow