William McDonough Quotes

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

I can concentrate on my art.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Art is an investigation.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

As a kid I was creative.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

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

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.