George MacDonald Quotes

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.