Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
Chuck Jones

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
Chuck Jones

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
Chuck Jones

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
Chuck Jones

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Chuck Jones

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
Chuck Jones

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
Chuck Jones

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones