Willa Cather Quotes

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I always love writing about children.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

As a kid I was creative.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

Everybody draws when they are little.