Carl Andre Quotes

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

I always love writing about children.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

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 kid I was creative.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

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

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

Children are wonderful!

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

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

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

All children have creative power.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.