Quotes About Creativity

Too many people grow up. That`s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don`t remember what it`s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won`t do that

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Aeneas', Odysseus' wanderings,Placard "Removed" and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.

A great painter of men must (as has been said) have a faculty of conversing, but he must also have a capacity for solitude. There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and molars. Sydney Smith was a "molar."

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Writing is a form attention and trains the writer's attention to find images and stories.

I change over time and my perception of the poem also changes, hence endless revision. I sometimes worry that I spend more time revising than writing new poems.

There are so many poetic styles and ways to write a poem. I can hardly say that I've consciously chosen a particular style, but more that I've just found myself writing and then started accumulating reasons why I was writing the way I was.