Ayda Field Quotes

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

I never want to grow up.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'

In reality, I never want to grow up.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.