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Saturday, 17 May 2008

creative constraints

I’m attending a really great NSF-funded workshop on Productive Play this weekend, and Thomas Malaby, who’s sitting next to me, just cited a lovely quote from Igor Stravinsky. I don’t want to forget it, so the blog is the obvious place to save it :)

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Wonderful.

Posted at 2:11 PM in: conferences
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