Quotes On Creativity

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad... disaster seemed right around the corner.

I'm not interested in pleasing the critics. I'll take my chances pleasing the audiences.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in my work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

I don't make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures.

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

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing’ myself with obscure creative impressions.