There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

The 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.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

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.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.