Nathan Sawaya Quotes

When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

I loved playing with a doll as a youngster. I liked dressing her up and combing her hair. This one doll had a really big face and hair and earrings. I had her for a long time and only got rid of her when I was at high school.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

I am an artist who works with Lego.

Everybody draws when they are little.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

Yeah, I played with LEGOs. We had LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, and Playmobil, and they all occupied the same space. I guess that's fairly common. I'm saying this as if it's a bizarre phenomenon that we had a toy chest.