The grownup’s response to me was to advise me to lay aside my drawing and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. Grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and this is […]
Children Quotes
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Did you ever know any grown-ups who got married and then later they got a divorce? – Well, it is something people can talk about, and it’s something important. I know a little boy and a little girl whose mother and father got divorced, and those children cried and cried. And you know why? Well, […]
You’re a good example of why some animals eat their young.
The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails? (to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo)
No Columbus, no Marco Polo has ever seen stranger and more fascinating and thoroughly absorbing sights than the child that learns to perceive, to taste, to smell, to touch, to hear and see, and to use his body, his senses, and his mind. No wonder that the child shows an insatiable curiosity. He has the […]
