Walt Disney Quotes

“He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

“Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one’s will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“He was a Horatio Alger hero whose life demonstrated social mobility. He was a naïve artist whose work demonstrated a Jamesian unpretentiousness and common sense. He was a visionary whose plans demonstrated the breadth of American imagination and the power of American will. And however he behaved privately at his studio, he was publicly a modest, affable, and decent man whose image demonstrated America’s own decency and generosity of spirit.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“The only thing that mattered to him was that he had done everything in his power to make the cartoon as excellent as it could be.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“Walt was always the final authority, the one whom everyone had to please.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“For a young man who had chafed within the stern, moralistic, anhedonic world of his father, animation provided escape, and for someone who had always been subjugated by that father, it provided absolute control. In animation Walt Disney had a world of his own. In animation Walt Disney could be the power.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“It made Disney at once a nostalgist and a futurist, a conservative and a visionary.”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“book, Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, by Edwin G. Lutz,”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney

“fission,”
― Neal Gabler, Walt Disney