The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day … - Chuck Jones
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day …
- Chuck Jones
An animator is an actor with a pencil. - Chuck Jones
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. - Chuck Jones
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life - Chuck Jones
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show. - Chuck Jones
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. - Chuck Jones
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are. - Chuck Jones
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. - Chuck Jones
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. - Chuck Jones
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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