“You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.” ChildrenChildhoodFiguresFieldsRainWoodsSnowLandscapeMeadows Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.” YearsChildrenChildhoodFiguresHistoricalSeriesSevenDozenSeven YearsNancyClaraHistorical Figure Author:Ann Hood
“I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.” I CanMightAgeHouseProcessParentForeverChildhoodFiguresSellsBedroomConvincingJust Live Author:Pete Wentz
“We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly went crazy as soon as he left the house for college or adulthood. And nobody can figure out how or why it happened!” ThinkingKidsHouseLeftParentHappenedCrazyChildhoodFiguresCollegeAdulthoodGreat FamilyGreat Parents Author:Andy Andrews
“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.” WorldTryingLittlesCountryWholeUsedHouseFantasyChildhoodFiguresMomMy MomConnectedOur CountryShootingDaydreamingReverieMiniaturesCountry Houses Author:Gregory Crewdson
“For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.” WayLittlesSelfAbleLostImaginationChildhoodFiguresAdventureSelf RelianceRelianceRoaming Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.” IfsLongEnoughEyeLostHalfChildhoodFrontsFiguresFieldsStandingWaveTinySpotsHorizonNever Let Me Go Book:Never Let Me Go Source: Never Let Me Go