Eschew 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 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 sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck JonesPainting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck JonesWhen critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones