Walt Disney Quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Since when was genius found respectable?

I want to work with anybody original.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

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.

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.