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“Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.”

Feels Children Animal Company Class Ease Vegetarian Working Class

“Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?”

Needs Different Real Play Truth Science Lying Certain Order Animal Century Flower Research Female Breaths Plant Species Males Code Flash Insects Firefly Real Truth

Author:Lewis Thomas

Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”

Men Wisdom Lying Animal Generations Son Wiser Compass Confined Animal Welfare

Author:Joseph Addison

Source: The spectator

“Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.”

Knows Humans Soul Suffering Animal Objects Mourn Chasms

Author:Gary A. Kowalski

Source: The Souls of Animals

“Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.”

Inspirational Motivational Animal Rich Sea Awareness Rivers Lonely Madness Desert Landscape Interiors Cliffs Serene Tranquil Canyons

Author:Gary A. Kowalski

Source: The Souls of Animals

“Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Helping Beautiful Passion Animal Compassion Organization Rescue Animal Rescue

Author:Alyssa Milano

“Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.”

Men Has Beens Body Animal Teach Taught Return Advantage Add Organs

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

Made Animal Humility Equal Slave Animal Rights Natural Selection

Author:Charles Darwin

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.”

Men Mean Ends Animal Animal Rights Means To An End

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.”

Knows Want Happens Animal What You Want

Author:Bruce Greenwood

“Animate or inanimate, all bodies under the sun give expression to their vitality. Especially on a fine day in spring!”

Sun Spring Vitalityty

Author:Henry Miller

Source: The Wisdom of the Heart

“Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.”

Ends Christian Father House Wise Conscience Blessed Motive Testimony Inheritance Brighter Animated Benevolence Hereafter Redeemer Benediction Approving

Author:Richard Mant

Source: The Church and her ministrations: discourses

“Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?”

Different Action Film Lines Dialogue Realms Digital Translate Spontaneity Animated Animated Films

Author:Gore Verbinski

“Animated program was definitely a different process but it was fun though, it had elements of doing my podcast where we were all in a booth with microphones joking around and stuff. It was definitely a fun process.”

Different Fun Stuff Process Elements Program Animated Microphones Joking Around

Author:Bill Burr

“Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.”

Pain Actors Process Animator

Author:Wes Anderson

“Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.”

People Thinking Different Kids Film Audience Studios Technique Storytelling Genre Tragic Animation Spectrum Older People Different Genres

Author:Bill Plympton

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

Men Inspirational Mind Motivational Motivation Positive Inspirational Life Attraction Uplifting Law Of Attraction Daily Motivation Animation Positive Outlook Big Business Motivational Business Secret Law Of Attraction Power Of Positive Thinking Inspiring Leader Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Motivational Leadership Versatile Burning Desire Positive Inspirational Following Dreams Business Man Positive Thinking Success Cool Motivational Think Positive Be Positive Business Inspiration Disney Company Means Of Communication Positive Thinking In Life Life And Inspirational Life Motivation Life Best Inspirational Positive Mind Succeeding In Business Successful Work Words Of Inspiration Positive Motivational Positive Work Winners Motivational Motivational Life Need Encouragement Inspiration And Motivation Positive Business Disney Animation Daily Motivational Inspirational Checkerboard Starting Week Amazing Inspirational

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Men Mind Mean Communication Mass Appreciation Animation Facility Explicit Versatile Disney Company Means Of Communication Animated Movies Appreciation In Relationships Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.”

Children Form Television Dominant Animation

Author:Annette Funicello

“Animation. Enthusiasm. Sincerity. Excitement. Acceptance. Have I just described your family dog? You’re happy to see him because he is so happy to see you. It is no wonder dogs are called “Man’s Best Friend” with attributes like that. Their natural propensity for joy makes them among the most personable and friendly creatures on the planet. Human beings could learn a thing or two from their eager and earnest approach to life.”

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Author:Susan C. Young

Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact

“Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.”

Used Cities New York Kings Destruction Tired Golden Destroyed Bridges Gates Destroying Legends Rome Animation San Francisco Outlets Very Popular King Kong Golden Gate Bridge

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.”

Technology Animation

Author:Chris Wedge

“Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.”

Bigs Fans Changed Animation

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.”

Way Action Fighting Morning Sun Clock Chairs Animation Early Morning Always Fighting

Author:John C. Reilly

“Animation is a technique, not a genre.”

Technique Genre Animation

Author:Gore Verbinski

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

Ifs Creating Illusion Animation Illusions Of Life

Author:Brad Bird

“Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.”

Ability Timing Animation

Author:John Rozum

“Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.”

Humans Art Human Beings Expression Capable Strategy Defense Animation Being Content Superego Art Expression

Author:Luiz Bolognesi

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

Different Language Animation Unnatural Caricatures Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Humans Different Jobs Language Difficult Natural Animal Cartoon Animation Unnatural Anatomy Caricatures Humans And Animals Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“Animation is manipulating the difference.”

Differences Animation

Author:Norman McLaren

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

Children Drug Adults Animation

Author:Paul McCartney

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

Art Moving Movement Drawing Animation

Author:Norman McLaren

“Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".”

School Artist Animation Animator

Author:Kate Beaton

“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.”

Doe Play Stories Kids Challenges Audience Type Adults Animation

Author:John Lasseter

“Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.”

Whole Action Wanted Desire Whole Life Animation

Author:John Lasseter

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

Art Cycles Animation Resilient Good Art

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life”

Illusion Animation Illusions Of Life

Author:Chuck Jones

“Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.”

Mean Animation Invoke

Author:Chuck Jones

“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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Author:Walt Disney

“Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's mind. But animation takes a step away. It creates a very stylized landscape, but at the same time it is the form that is best able to address the reality of being alive and being in pain.”

Ifs Mind Persons Reality Able Action Pain Form Steps Alive Landscape Visuals Addresses Remove Animation

Author:Signe Baumane

“Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.”

Ifs Want Deals Asking Phones Coffee Concentration Animation

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.”

Should Art Done Fellows Luck Trade Animation Bad Luck

Author:Winsor McCay

“Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create the film - the world and it's characters. We meet almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It's a highly collaborative process - and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time.”

World Character Running Action Film Animation

Author:Nathan Greno

“Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.”

Character Feelings Body Language Taught Expression Draws Communicate Animation Body Language Facial Facial Expression

Author:Vera Brosgol

“Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.”

People Sports Team Fewer Animation Input Sports Team

Author:Bill Watterson

“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.”

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

Way Ideas Powerful Entertainment Good Ideas Cunning Animation Really Powerful

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.”

Ifs Moments Character Choices Actors Acting Fronts Emotional Planets Scene Directors Creating Performances Cameras Translate Apes Facial Animator

Author:Andy Serkis

“Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.”

Long Live Life Second Chance Animator

Author:Darren Aronofsky

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