Johan Huizinga Quotes

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

When you're playing tag in Roblox; or when you're working in a pizza restaurant; or when you're flying as a bird - you're there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.

I play dominoes all the way until I got Bible study. And then I do Bible study. I go to the game. After the game, come home. Dinner. Dominoes until I go to sleep. I'm. Not. Joking.

I play basketball strictly for enjoyment and to add to the support of my family.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

Man's most serious activity is play.

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.