Animation Quotes

Animation Quote of the day

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

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

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

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

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

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

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

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

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

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

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.

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

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.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

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.

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

I love great animation.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

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

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

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.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

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

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.