Quotes By Chuck Jones
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
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
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
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
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones
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
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
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
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
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
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
Chuck Jones
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
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
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones