“The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.” ShouldKindChildrenArtDonePracticeStudyTheoryArt IsTestsJudgementBranchesEngineersWork Done Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.” WorldChildrenArtDesireSpeakLanguageNaturalGeniusDrawsArt IsTreatedInnate Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.” FirstsChildrenArtDoneBeautifulValuesCreationSourceArt IsAdultsArtisticThings DoneSmall ChildArtistic Creation Author:Franz Cizek
“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.” MenWorldWritingChildrenHas BeensArtRealWholeJoyArtistUniverseBornReligiousLove IsSubjectsPaintingBirthArt IsWhole WorldImpulseNon Religious Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.” IfsWorldWayMindHumansChildrenArtDreamCommonLimitsDrawsArt IsLogicCommon SenseImmortalWorks Of Art Author:Giorgio de Chirico