Creative Innocence Quotes

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.

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

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.