Chuck Jones Quotes

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• We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
• I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify…
• Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
• 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…
• When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
• The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
• 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.
• 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…
• When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to…
• Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
• Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
• 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…
• If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.
• 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.
• If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
• You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
• The road is better than the end.
• Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

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