Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. – Heraclitus

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943