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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
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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
Actor
Animation Director
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
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Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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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.
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The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
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Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
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Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
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Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
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Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
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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.
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The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
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There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
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Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
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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.
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Animation isn't the illusion of life it is life
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You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
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