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

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.

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

It was a perfect marrige. She didn't want to and he couldn't

To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.