“Towards the ‘primary madness’, or ‘uncommon sense’, which Marion Milner in her wonderful 1950 memoir, On Not Being Able to Paint, places at the heart of painting (she describes it in terms of ecstasy and terror).”
J. Rose

“So, I said to her [Marion Milner], ‘What’s wrong with thinking playing is reality, that creativity is magic?’ And she said, ‘It meant that he believed he could help anyone and everyone, that he was magic because he could play’.” Adam Phillips

“When people like Marion Milner, or myself [D.W.] for that matter, write papers, we do not write them in order to show each time that we have grasped Melanie Klein’s contributions to theory, but we write them because of an original idea that needs ventilating.’[Rodman, 1987]”
Nude Academy