Walt Disney Quotes

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

I eventually thought of SpongeBob, but he needed a last name - SquarePants came to mind.

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.

When I was growing up, I drew my favorite basketball players.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure.

A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I'll be back at my parents house, and it's like I'm in a safe incubator.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun.