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QOTD: The Play of Art
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mbarker.livejournal.comOriginal posting 25 April 1994
"And of course, as everybody knows who has ever played at games, the ones that are the most fun - to lose as well as to win - are the ones that are the hardest, with the most complicated, even dangerous, tasks to accomplish. ... The artist seeks the challenge, the difficult thing to do; for his basic approach to life is not of work but of play.
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"Life as an art and art as a game - as action for its own sake, without thought of gain or loss, praise or blame - is the key, then to the turning of life itself into a yoga, and art into the means to such a life."
Myths To Live By
Joseph Campbell
Does he mean life is like a yoyo - it has its ups and downs?
[OWC: compare life with other toys - frisbee, surfboard, whatever - in a humorous way (I would say ironic, but I can't quite pin it down:-)]
"And of course, as everybody knows who has ever played at games, the ones that are the most fun - to lose as well as to win - are the ones that are the hardest, with the most complicated, even dangerous, tasks to accomplish. ... The artist seeks the challenge, the difficult thing to do; for his basic approach to life is not of work but of play.
...
"Life as an art and art as a game - as action for its own sake, without thought of gain or loss, praise or blame - is the key, then to the turning of life itself into a yoga, and art into the means to such a life."
Myths To Live By
Joseph Campbell
Does he mean life is like a yoyo - it has its ups and downs?
[OWC: compare life with other toys - frisbee, surfboard, whatever - in a humorous way (I would say ironic, but I can't quite pin it down:-)]
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