When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

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

The 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 sunflowers rattling against a wall.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.