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.
Stephen NachmanovitchFidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.
Stephen NachmanovitchEvery conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.
Stephen NachmanovitchCreative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.
Stephen NachmanovitchThe easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.
Stephen Nachmanovitch