Andy Partridge Quotes

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

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.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

Children are wonderful!

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

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

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

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

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

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.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

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

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

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

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.