Playtime!

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play is our brain's favourite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman

We tend to forget that play is serious.
David Hockney

Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Redfield Jamison

Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.
Carl Jung

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.
Henri Matisse

Play is training for the unexpected.
Marc Bekoff

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.
Pablo Neruda

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.
Robert Coles

So, in all these spheres—in painting, sculpture, drawing, music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, games, sports, writing, and speech—we can carry on to our heart’s content, all through our long lives, complex and specialized forms of exploration and experiment.
Desmond Morris

Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children’s lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant.
Patricia G. Ramsey