play

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• Apr 15 Outside Ordinary Life Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, Chapter 1 Summing up the formal characteristics of play, we might call it a free activity standing quite consc...
• Mar 29 What Playing Is For Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is wort...
• Mar 14 The Still More Difficult Art Friedrich Schiller, Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letter XV With beauty man shall only play, and it is with beauty only that he shall play. For, to speak out on...
• Feb 21 What the Wall Returns Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura) I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a new device for study which, although it may seem ...
• Jan 27 The Blank Canvas's Idiotic Stare Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo van Gogh Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. You don't know ...
• Jan 26 Crooked Roads William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.