Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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

Every man is an artist.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Every kid has a story to tell!

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

An empty canvas is full.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

I live for the blank page.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.