Aldous Huxley Quotes

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

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.

I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

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

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.