I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.