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.

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.

Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.