Best Animation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities. A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.”

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Author:Sanhita Baruah

“If it is fancy which bestows brilliancy on our ideas, if it is memory which gives them stability, passion doth more, it animates them. ... To make me believe it is enough to show me that things are so; to make me act, it is necessary to show that the action will answer some end.”

Facts Action Memory Animation

Book:The Philosophy of Rhetoric

Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric

“Forms acquire meaning for us only because we recognize in them the expression of a sentient (fühlend) soul. Spontaneously, we animate (beseelen) every object.”

Soul Form Meaning Animation

Author:Heinrich Wölfflin

“The animating fire of life is merely a total devotion to living.”

Life Devotion Animation Totality

Book:Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“SIMPSONS BLUFFER'S RULE #2 The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'. For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of Oz”

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Book:The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons

Source: The Bluffer's Guide to The Simpsons

“Let's agree the atoms comprising a stone and a human being are inanimate.”

Life Animation Inanimate

Author:Roscoe Webster

“You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.”

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Book:Bluey and The Great Spirit Moon

Source: Bluey and The Great Spirit Moon

“Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.”

Expression Praise Animation Motion Marvels

Book:Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Motiongraphic is a data with an animated storyline.”

Data Animation Motion Amazing Slide Videographic Videographic

Book:Amazing Slide Videographic

Source: Amazing Slide Videographic

“2D animation design has gained immense popularity since when it was first introduced. Today it’s primarily deployed in 2D animation studios for creating advertisements, marketing videos, animated movies or cartoons, corporate presentations, and video games. Besides being adorable, 2D animations tend to capture audiences through their auditory, visual, and kinesthetic aspects. Information communicated to the viewers in a visual format is perceived far better since it stimulates different brain regions while simultaneously engaging multiple senses to enable the user to comprehend data more effectively. This deeper level of engagement also triggers the urge in users to share what they find attractive, thus, accounting for more prospects.”

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Author:CLD Animation

“Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.”

Film Japan Animation Hayao Miyazaki

Book:Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation

Source: Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation

“I can’t think of a morning I haven’t woken up with the thought of STRANGLING you! That sanctimonious image of yours fooled everyone – except me! Because I! KNOW! EVIL!”

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Author:Lex Luthor, Public Enemies

“I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.”

Giving Real Seems Machines Give Me Invention Animation Technicians

Author:Nick Park

“If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.”

Ifs Wells Looks Adventure Cartoon Ink Animation

Author:Fred Seibert

“I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.”

Feels Process I've Learned Animation Animated Animated Movies

Author:Zack Snyder

“The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.”

Happens Performances Animation Niche

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.”

People Stuff Crazy Serious Drawing Performing Animation Tinkering Performing Music

Author:Chad VanGaalen

“Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.”

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Author:Zachary Levi

“You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.”

Ifs Want Character Loses Successful Being Successful Animation Losing Yourself

Author:Lucille Bliss

“A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.”

Stories Animation

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.”

Way Real Whole Stories Seems Age Natural Mom My Mom Drawing Whole Life My Sister Extensions Animation

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

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

Children Form Television Dominant Animation

Author:Annette Funicello

“It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.”

Years Film Ambition Length Animation My Ambition

Author:Paul McCartney

“Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.”

Acting Animation Mount Rushmore

Author:John Cassavetes

“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“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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Author:Walt Disney

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

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Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Giving Mind Wells Important Real Facts Reality Seems Spirit Imagination Fantasy Materials Senses Live By Cartoon Animation

Author:Walt Disney

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

Made Character Emotion Pride Development Artistic Cartoon Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“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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Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Firsts May Mean Laughing Personality Tricks Mediums Cartoon Animation Novelty Aisle Pathos

Author:Walt Disney

“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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Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Knowing Example Draws Fellows Animation Caricatures Hardy Laurels Laurel And Hardy

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Character Shows Feelings Action Reactions Animation Action And Reaction

Author:Walt Disney

“I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Artist Passion Animal Animation

Author:Andreas Deja

“When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.”

Persons Goal Masters Drawing Als Animation

Author:Brad Bird

“One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.”

Chance Produce Shots Expensive Animation Coverage One Chance

Author:John Lasseter

“Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.”

Wells Actors Stuff Nice Accounts Animation Nice Things

Author:Paul Newman

“The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.”

Ifs Good Things Animation

Author:Tim Burton

“Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.”

Thinking Breaths Animation Suspended

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.”

Men Way Different Matter Reason Running Moving Morning Feet Baby Drawing Saturday Cartoon Animation Alligators Saturday Morning

Author:Chuck Jones

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

Art Language Storytelling Animation Anatomy Visual Storytelling

Author:Walt Disney

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

Different Language Animation Unnatural Caricatures Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.”

Stills Remember Games Animation

Author:Victor Navone

“I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.”

Looks Stuff Fans Favors Animation

Author:Matt Groening

“I've loved all forms of animation.”

Form Animation

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.”

Ifs Giving Ends Strong Conversation Variety Tides Strokes Animation Ripple Stagnation

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.”

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Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

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