Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Action

Art

Crafts

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Creativity

Musician

Surrender

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because “normal life” is rigid and traumatized.

Creative

Life Is

Normal

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

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.

Delight

Earth

Imperfect

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Breathing

Jazz

Ordinary

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

Boredom

Hands

Trying

Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.

Artist

Eye

Self

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

Mean

Play

Skills

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

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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

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Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because “normal life” is rigid and traumatized.

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

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.

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