"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce……" — Chuck Jones
"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."
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53 Quotes by Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones has 53 quotes on this site.
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
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I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the…
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Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most…
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have,…
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers…
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When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you…
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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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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to…
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If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are…
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