Animate Quote by Ollie Johnston

You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

— Norman McLaren

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

— Vera Brosgol

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

— Eric Idle

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

— Wes Anderson

Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, 'Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.'

— Patti Harrison

“On one hand, the state of being “animated” implies the most general of all affective conditions (that of being “moved” in one way or…

— Sianne Ngai

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . .…

— Walt Disney

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

— Dan Scanlon

We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.

— Victor Navone