Christian Morgenstern Quotes

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Every man is an artist.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I like the idea of creating from your inner youth. You don't have to think too hard about it. Just make what feels good.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

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

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.