68+ Chuck Jones Quotes On Art, Culture And Music

Chuck Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, and film director, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. He wrote, directed, and/or produced many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, and other characters. He won three Academy Awards for his work and received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his lifetime achievement. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Chuck Jones on life, art, culture.

Top 10 Chuck Jones Quotes

1. Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
2. Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
3. Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
4. Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
5. Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
6. A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
7. Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
8. An animator is an actor with a pencil.
9. Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
10. 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.

Chuck Jones Image Quotes

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones Short Quotes

• Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
• The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
• When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
• I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
• Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
• Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
• You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
• Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

Chuck Jones Quotes About Bugs

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

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. — Chuck Jones

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy. — Chuck Jones

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. — Chuck Jones

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it — Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones Quotes About Work

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

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show. — Chuck Jones

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 Quotes About Drawings

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented. — Chuck Jones

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. — Chuck Jones

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 take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’ — Chuck Jones

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

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. — Chuck Jones

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. — Chuck Jones

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. — Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones Famous Quotes And Sayings

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones

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

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot. — Chuck Jones

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character. — Chuck Jones

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

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 where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time. — Chuck Jones

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity. — Chuck Jones

[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion. — Chuck Jones

Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion. — Chuck Jones

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. — Chuck Jones

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. — Chuck Jones

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny. — Chuck Jones

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. — Chuck Jones

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself. — Chuck Jones

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. — Chuck Jones

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 room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too. — Chuck Jones

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

Each character represented a trait that resides in me. — Chuck Jones

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. — Chuck Jones

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove. — Chuck Jones

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. — Chuck Jones

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

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

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. — Chuck Jones

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. — Chuck Jones

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist. — Chuck Jones

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. — Chuck Jones

The road is better than the inn. — Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?' — Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. — Chuck Jones

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same. — Chuck Jones

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down. — Chuck Jones

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth. — Chuck Jones

Life Lessons by Chuck Jones

1. Chuck Jones taught us to never give up on our dreams and to keep pushing forward, no matter the obstacles.
2. He also showed us that creativity and hard work can lead to great success and that it's important to stay true to our own unique style.
3. Finally, Chuck Jones taught us to stay humble and to never forget to have fun in whatever we do.