Dorothea Brande Quotes

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

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

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

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

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

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.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

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.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

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.

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

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

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.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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

What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.