Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.
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 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.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. - Chuck Jones
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
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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