Art Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Action

Art

Crafts

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

Art

Creative

Creativity

Stephen Nachmanovitch

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

Art

Persons

Teach

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

Art

Real

Spiritual

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

Art

Playing Games

Spring

Stephen Nachmanovitch

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there…. Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

Art

Hands

Struggle

Stephen Nachmanovitch

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

Art

Change

Lying

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Action

Art

Artist

Attitude

Boredom

Break Through

Breathing

Change

Children

Cost

Crafts

Creative

Creativity

Delight

Depends

Earth

Eye

Gaps

Hands

Identity

Imagination

Imperfect

Inspiration

Irritation

Jazz

Jobs

Knowing

Language

Layers

Life Is

Lying

Mean

Meetings

Messages

Musician

Needs

Normal

Ordinary

Our Society

Pearls

People

Persons

Pieces

Play

Playing Games

Practice

Real

Reality

Responsibility

Rewards

Self

Single Mom

Skills

Speak

Spiritual

Splits

Spring

Struggle

Surprise

Surrender

Teach

Technique

Thinking

Together

Trying

World

Art Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

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