Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

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

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.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

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

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

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.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women