Chuck JonesThe only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.361Time
Chuck JonesIf you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.365Love
Chuck JonesWhen critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.366Truth
Chuck JonesA comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny. ✨ Animation - Art and Industry. Book by Maureen Furniss, October 5, 2009.334HumorReading
Chuck JonesIf 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, h… ▶356Death
Chuck JonesI have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. ✨ Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). Chuck Jones: Conversations, p.165, Univ. Press of Mississippi313Thought
Chuck JonesAnyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.3710Politics
Chuck JonesFog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.358Reflection
Chuck JonesPainting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.369Sadness
Chuck JonesThe 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.282Thought
Chuck JonesFog 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 con… ▶349Love
Chuck JonesComedy is a very, very, very stringent business. ✨ Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). Chuck Jones: Conversations, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi3510Humor
Chuck JonesAnimation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.262Life
Chuck JonesIf you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it242Time
Chuck JonesEach character represented a trait that resides in me.319Time
Chuck JonesCensorship, 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-satisfyin… ▶231Humanity
Chuck JonesHuman beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.3110Humanity
Chuck JonesI'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… ▶201Time
Chuck JonesThe rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.234Love
Chuck JonesBugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.213Truth
Chuck JonesThe road is better than the inn. ✨ Chuck Jones: Conversations.215Love
Chuck JonesJackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.215Humor
Chuck JonesEschew 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… ▶171LifeThoughtTime
Chuck JonesWell, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. ✨ Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). Chuck Jones: Conversations, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississi… ▶207Thought
Chuck JonesHumiliation 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… ▶174DeathLifeLove
Chuck JonesThe 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 sunf… ▶207Hope
Chuck JonesThere is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.2310Thought
Chuck JonesComedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. ✨ Chuck Jones (1999). Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, p.1… ▶207HumanityHumorLife
Chuck JonesEarly experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.164Life
Chuck JonesYou've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.142Thought
