Quotes from Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.