Quotes About Child Artists

#1. In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

Jasper Johns

#2. 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.

Catherine Hardwicke

#3. As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

Robin G. Collingwood

#4. It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

Marina Abramovic

#5. Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

George Cukor

#6. Until my early teens, I lived with my mother in New York, and I spent a lot of time in the company of her friends, mostly artists and designers, such as Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner and Francesco Clemente, none of whom had kids, so I was like their shared child.

Jade Jagger

#7. The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Henri Matisse

#8. In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Lawren Harris

#9. In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Creed Bratton

#10. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Corita Kent

#11. If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Martha Ostenso

#13. Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

Stella Adler

#14. I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Steven Spielberg

#15. Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

Peter Schjeldahl

#16. The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

David Pajo

#17. Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

Pamela Anderson