David Lynch Quotes

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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 still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

Children reinvent your world for you.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

You learn a lot from kids.

Children are wonderful!

Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

We learn many things from children, always.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.