But some children have clearer vision than adults.

Children do have big eyes. When I'm doing a portrait, the eyes are the most expressive part of the face. And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

I'm always seeing the world with magic eyes," he said. "I'm exploding with childish wonder.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

As in the focus of a magnifying glass, play contains all developmental tendencies in a condensed form and is itself a major source of development.