Mcniff Quotes

Creativity cannot flourish and reach its deepest potential without the participation of its demons as well as its angels.

We learn from continual practice, but exercises need variety in order to solicit new responses.

As Jung suggests, a better understanding of inner processes will benefit what we do in the “outer” world of therapeutic practice.

Imagine consultants coming into an organization to help people look at their most routine daily action … as extensions of the creative process.

A person’s license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Writing and painting are modes of performance. We begin in stillness and make contact with what moves through us at the moment. If there is a resistance to expression, we acknowledge its presence and try to accept its place in our life at that moment. Relaxing with the resistance helps to release its negative hold on expression.

Spaces are forever acting on us and stimulating a creative range of expressions.

But there is very little emphasis within our educational systems on the education of the imagination, which requires sustained encounters with uncertainty.

The people with whom we live are often the ones whose presence arouses the least reaction from us. Although we are intimately accustomed to their expressions, we tend to be less aware of them. This unconsciousness often accounts for the ease of coexistence, but it has its shadow in a lack of appreciation. The same thing happens with our relationships with art materials.

McNiff, S. (1992) Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of

The people with whome we live are often the ones whose presence arouses the least reaction from us. Although we are intimately accustomed to their expressions, we tend to be less aware of them. This unconsciousness often accounts for the ease of coexistence, but it has its shadow in a lack of appreciation. The same thing happens with our relationships with art materials.

It’s the books that are the hardest to read that are the most important. They’re the ones with something to say.

You’re the love of my life. It had to be you. I needed you, Olly. You saved me. No one else would have.

I watched the movie version of Watership Down in second grade. It scarred me for life, Huck. For life.

How is he going to walk to me on our wedding day? How is he going to chase our kids?