We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

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.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways.