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Quotes by Chuck Jones - (17 quotes)

Chuck Jones - From the Anxiety category:

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Colour category:

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Criticism category:

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Critics category:

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Drawing category:

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Expectation category:

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. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Humour category:

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Individuality category:

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Innovation category:

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Joy category:

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)

Chuck Jones - From the Painting category:

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Profession category:

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Rules category:

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)

Chuck Jones - From the Selling category:

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Simplicity category:

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)

Chuck Jones - From the Thinking category:

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. (Chuck Jones)

Chuck Jones - From the Thinking category:

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. (Chuck Jones)