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The Importance of Play
Poetry is greater than Philosophy and History.
~Aristotle
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“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 Gustav Jung
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“It is fatal to be safe in the pursuit of the arts. You mentioned my quote about the great saints who are formed by battles of faith and wit; struggles with sin. This is also how great artists are made. You look at who and what you are, where and how you live, where and how you work, and you see that it needs to either be reformed or refined or merely appreciated. You work for something else, not merely for yourself. You struggle for something bigger and greater than yourself, and far more necessary. It cannot merely be a career, a need-filler, a dream realized. It is a calling.”
— Eva Le Gallienne
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Michelangelo lost his mother early, he was only six years old when it happened. Michelangelo’s father Lodovico, at one time the mayor of Caprese, literally broke his son’s arms because he considered painting and sculpture to be foolishness and a waste of time. That’s why Michelangelo learned to work secretly, “in his head”, and that’s where the famous…
