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Walt Disney, born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, was an outstanding animator, producer, director, and entrepreneur. He founded the Disney Company and introduced numerous beloved animated characters and films, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Snow White. Disney's works not only entertained audiences worldwide but also had a profound impact on the animation industry and culture.

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“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”

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“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”

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“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”

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“I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.”

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“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”

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“At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”

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“I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.”

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“I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.”

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“In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.”

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“In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.”

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

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

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“Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.”

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“nothing is impossible”

Source: The Jungle Book

“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

“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.”

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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.”

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“Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.”

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Author:Walt Disney

About the Author

Born: December 5, 1901
Died: December 15, 1966
Known for: Animator
Quotes: 405

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