Animation Quotes

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

  Chuck Jones

  Illusion, Illusions Of Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, People, Age

  "COSI exhibit explores world of cartoons". The Review, August 2, 2007.

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

  Brad Bird

  Creating, Illusion, Ifs

  "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Moving, Drawing

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• Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

  Chuck Jones

  Mean, Invoke

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• All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

  Dean DeBlois

  Tools, Animator

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• Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Character, Doubt, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Ideas, Important, Energy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

  John Lasseter

  Kids, Play, Challenges

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• Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Drawing, Actors

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• Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

  John Noble

  Fun, Different, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  Paul McCartney

  Children, Drug, Adults

  "Analysis: Predictable Golden Globes Honor 'Avatar'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2010.

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• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Resilient, Cycles

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• I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Memories, Future, Past

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• Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

  Gore Verbinski

  "‘Rango’ Director Gore Verbinski Reveals The Top Ten Inspirations Of His Oscar-Contending Animated Feature Film" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

  Chuck Jones

  Keys, Drawing, Mind

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fantasy, Wells

  "Steven Spielberg Tempts the Fates With His Animated 'Tintin'". Interview with Matt McDaniel, www.yahoo.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, Different, Language

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  Walt Disney

  Appreciation, Communication, Mean

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

  Milt Kahl

  Movement, Harder, Mediums

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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Paint, Fine

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