Aldous Huxley Quotes

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

There is a child in all of us.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

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.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.