Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

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

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

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

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

To be an actor you have to be a child.

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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

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

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.