57 Quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

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

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

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

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.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

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

Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.