Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Children are so talented. Little children, until about the age of 10 or 11, are just little artists. They need to be given the time and the space and the materials to do their work. That's all they need.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

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

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

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

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

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

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.

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

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.