“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.” PersonsArtIdeasHandsPracticeStruggleReturnSkillsEthicsRewardsWesternEndureRelatedBoredomAcquireWork EthicEastern Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
“To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.” TechniqueAcquire Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.” PlayPracticeLimitsSpringToolsTechniqueResistanceAcquireTesting Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
