every child is an artist

I’ve heard similar quotes over the years. Others have commented about how as we grow older, we spend less and less time working with our hands in general, and much less on art. By the time our educations reach university level, only a small percentage of us are involved in arts (visual, performing, etc.) and even fewer in the professional world. Why?

When experts are asked, they will admit that children need art not as a diversion, but as a fundamental tool for thought and growth in other ways. So the real question is, why are those benefits reserved only for children?

I know we’ve all got to do a job, and we’ve got the keep the trains running on time. But can’t those trains be slighty more beautiful?

I agree. But you can solve that problem by refusing to grow up. That’s what I did. :o)

The quote above is really well said but really I’m a really lucky person in my whole town to have internet and access to lot of creative info which helped me build this : http://www.esnips.com/web/trexaurus-images

In my city there’s hardly any creative artists. We need a bit more than the book mentioned above. After goin through so many creative inspiring sites,I feel so bored @ my city’s life.

Have you read Hugh MacLeod’s “Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity?” Reminds me of a quote:

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’”

:-) i believe this quote are the words of Pablo Picasso

it is a nice thought..

From a Christian perspective (mine) it is said that we are made in the image of a highly creative God, as such creative thinking is one of the most essential abilities.. only problem is.. it’s doesn’t work very well with the system.. so that’s why they poison our minds with fake religion, consumism Ω communism and all sorts of useless stuff like TV and bowling alleys

I been thinkin a lot about this stuff.. it’s so cool :-) i’d like to reverse the quote i think..

“Every artist is still a child”

i’m only 27 but i can’t see me grow older.. and i see a lot of my older creative friends (from 40 to 70) not as old people.. only as people being born a few years earlier

Grtz from the Netherlands
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