Chuck Jones Quotes

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

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.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Sometimes I like to draw.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

I have been drawing all my life.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.