"We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and itâ€™s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living â€” the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living â€” is play. Art and play."

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Source : "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#Art Quotes #Morning Quotes #Pain Quotes

“My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.”
“I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.”
“Surely love is both work and wages.”
“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
“True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“Youâ€™re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. Youâ€™ve done something.”
“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”
“Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.”

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