“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.” WayKindChildrenSelfWisdomInterestConsciousnessWiseHavensBuddhismInnocenceSelf ConsciousnessVested Interests Author:Frederick Lenz
“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” ShouldWellsChildrenArtParentKnowledgeVirtueConcernCarefulMannersInnocenceGood MannersMore KnowledgeSpeaking Well Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.” WantChildrenSubjectsPaintInnocence Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.” ChildrenArtCreationPureDelightInnocenceWorks Of ArtVery True Author:Roger Scruton
“In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.” ChildrenArtistPureInnocenceTrue Artists Author:Lawren Harris
“All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.” ChildrenArtSkillsAdultsInnocentInnocenceGreat ArtInnocent ChildrenWisdom Experience Author:Richard Schmid
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” WellsChildrenEarthGivenParentPiecesTraditionTreatsOur ChildrenInnocenceIndianYour ChildrenNativeAncestorNative AmericanEldersIndigenousMother EarthAmerican IndianNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomNative WisdomNative LandAmerican SpiritNative American Indian InspirationalNative American SpiritualNative American DreamSpiritual IndianNative American ProverbsAncient IndiaAmerican EagleCherokee Indian Author:Crazy Horse
“In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.” TryingHumansChildrenStillsSometimesJoySpeakFunStarsHealthyLaughterSpeciesRidiculousInnocenceReachingHuman SpeciesJoy Of LivingReaching For The StarsDisney Animation Author:Walt Disney
“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.” FirstsChildrenHas BeensLostLessonsAdultsSlaveInnocenceExploitation Author:Germaine Greer
“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.” FeelsChildrenHardRememberEssentialsExpectationsDiscoveryAreasInnocenceAestheticStrideSwitchingShuffling Author:Sara Genn
“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.” PeopleShouldChildrenArtSaidHelpingArtistSubjectsDisciplineAdultsCapacitySacredConvictionInnocenceIrrationalArt EducationBaudelaire Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.” WantChildrenChildhoodDangerInternetDirectOur ChildrenImpactCornersInnocenceOnlinePornography Author:David Cameron