Tim Burton Quotes

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

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

Artists are always young.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

All children have creative power.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

As a kid I was creative.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

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

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

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.

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.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.