Winsor McCay Quotes

• Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.

  Winsor McCay

  Couple, Drawing, Feet

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• Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.

  Winsor McCay

  Art, Luck, Done

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• Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

  Winsor McCay

  Moon, Way, Slides

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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them.

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  Wall, School, Kids

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• Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

  Winsor McCay

  Father, Fighting, Names

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