Personal Quotes
- (On his short stint at art school)
"One of the teachers said he was going to take us into his studio and show us a brush stroke he had worked his whole life to invent. I just looked at this guy and said to myself: 'This is a bunch of nonsense!' I realized he was intellectualizing something that, in my mind, was a spiritual thing. Painting isn't an intellectual study . . . it comes from the heart."
- (On his Process)
"Basically, I see something, store it in my mind and study it. Then, when I get back to the studio, it just comes out . . . Everything we see is imprinted in our brain. And if we're able to connect with those images, we can call them back and use them."
- (On Disney)
"I can remember Walt Disney getting the Academy Award for Mary Poppins and thinking, 'That's what I want to do someday...'"
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