"In the concept of art,

play is the element by which art

immediately raises itself above the immediacy

of praxis and its purposes."

 

 

"The historical compulsion

for art mature functions in opposition to its playfulness,

though it does not cast it off altogether"

 

 

"Secretly play is in league with fate,

the representative of the mythical.

It is oppressive,

whereas art seeks to liberate man from myth."