Chuck Jones Quotes

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• The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

  Chuck Jones

  Love Yourself, Simple, Skills

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• 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

  Artist, Drawing, Way

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• Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

  Chuck Jones

  Want, Who We Are, Bugs

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• Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

  Chuck Jones

  Illusion, Animation, Illusions Of Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 a butterfly will land on your finger.

  Chuck Jones

  Inspiration, Butterfly, Land

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• If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

  Chuck Jones

  Character, Drawing, Ends

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• All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

  Chuck Jones

  Should, Worthwhile, Endeavor

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• An animator is an actor with a pencil.

  Chuck Jones

  Actors, Animator, Pencils

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• Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

  Chuck Jones

  Ordinary, Needs, Esoteric

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

  Chuck Jones

  Mean, Animation, Invoke

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• You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

  Chuck Jones

  Coyotes

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• I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.

  Chuck Jones

  Regret, Thinking, Knowing

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• Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the
  first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
  explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
  intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of
  thought on every occasion.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Men, Firsts

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• The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Essence, Drawing

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• The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

  Chuck Jones

  Animal, Individuality, Individualism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

  Chuck Jones

  Drawing, Millions

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• Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

  Chuck Jones

  Suffering, Way, Ifs

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• [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

  Chuck Jones

  Fall, Worry, Coyotes

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• If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

  Chuck Jones

  Dog, Cat, Drunk

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• All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

  Chuck Jones

  Drawing, Hundred, Thousand

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

  Chuck Jones

  Artist, Criticism, Needs

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• The road is better than the inn.

  Chuck Jones

  Ends

  "Chuck Jones: Conversations".

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• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Long, Willingness

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