Play Culture Quotes

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

It was never a case of male and female when I was growing up. I played with my cousins, my friends. From a young age, I played on the local streets, just with my neighbours. The majority would be boys, but a couple would be girls, so I never really thought too hard about it.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.