I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

Most adults, by contrast, find it hard to be playful — no doubt because they have to take care of all the responsibilities that come with an adult’s life. Creative adults, however, have not forgotten how to play.

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before — then there is creativity.

Creativity takes courage

Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist, ein Künstler zu bleiben, wenn du erwachsen bist.

Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid!

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.