“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
—Carl Jung
Steve Schlafmantwitter.com“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” —Carl Jung
The source of all art is the human psyche’s primal, prelinguistic need for the resolution of stress and discord through beauty and harmony, for the use of creativity to revive a life deadened by routine, for a link to reality through our instinctive, sensory feel for the truth.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
A little fun can go a long way toward making your work feel more like play. We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Forget rational thought. Play. Play like a child. Why does this purely instinctive, intuitive method work? Because our idea (our song, our ballet, our new Tex-Mex restaurant) is smarter than we are.