Kanye West Quotes

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

As a kid I was creative.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

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

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

I never played with anything like toys.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

I'm just a sweet little kid.

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