Jan Brett Quotes

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

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.

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

Childhood lasts all through life.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

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