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 REFLECTIONS
ON CLOWNING
Your quotes, poems or inspired writings
These thoughts and quotes all reflect the spirit of clowning and aspects
of our work. You may know of others or may have recently come across
something you wish to share. If so, send it to us with the source
reference, your name and a brief reason for its inclusion and we will
put it on this page.
Jill Violet
"Play matters because people matter. It reminds us of our interdependence
and gives us a chance to really see other people and, in turn, to
be really and truly seen."
Albert Einstein
"Play is the Highest Form of Research.”
Fred Rogers
It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play
that make a great difference in our lives.
GK Chesterton
"In everything that yields gracefully, there must be resistance.
Bows are beautiful when they bend only because they seek to remain
rigid. Rigidity that slightly yields, like justice swayed by pity,
is all the beauty of earth. Everything seeks to grow straight, and
happily, nothing succeeds in so growing. Try to grow straight and
life will bend you."
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of
Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish
inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has
other people looking at it.”
Agnes DeMille
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing
what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but
we take leap after leap in the dark."
Sent by Angie Foster - Oct 08
Miles Davis
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Friedrich Schiller
We only play when we are in the fullest sense of the word human, and
we are only fully human when we play.
Niels Bohr
“The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite
of a profound truth can be another profound truth.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity,
but I would give my life for the simplicity of the other side of complexity.
M. C. Richards
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
Stephen Nachmanovitch, in Free Play (1990)
If the oyster had hands, there would be no pearl.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who are reasonable adapt themselves to the world; those who
are unreasonable persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves.
Therefore all progress depends on being unreasonable.
Henry Miller "The smile at the foot of the ladder"
"A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts.
The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves.
Joy is like a river : it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this
is the message which the clown is trying to convey to us, that we
should participate through the ceaseless flow and movement, that we
should not stop to reflect, compare, analyse, possess, but flow on
and through, endlessly, like music. This is the gift of surrender,
and the clown makes it symbolically."
A. Simon "La planète des clowns"
"The art of the clown consists of freeing ourselves from all
roles except one : Our own. "
Stephen Nachmanovitch, in Free Play (1990)
The only road to strength is through vulnerability.
Victor Borge
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people”
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