Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— D.W. Winnicott

...there is for many a poverty of play and cultural life because, although the person had a place for erudition, there was a relative failure on the part of those who constitute the child's world of persons to introduce cultural elements at the appropriate phases of the person's personality development.

— D.W. Winnicott

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

— D.W. Winnicott