“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves.
DISNEY QUOTES ABOUT LIFE CODE
“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.” I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. “I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. “I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.” It’s the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can’t laugh at others.” I mean, there’s a certain something that you retain. “ Childishness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.” Be Yourself 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. “Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. “In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. Take Laurel and Hardy for example everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.” When you start to caricature a person,you can’t do it without knowing the person. “I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. “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.” Our characters are made to go through emotions.” “I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn’t mean you have a great picture. “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. “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.” Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.” Its language is the language of caricature. “Animation is different from other parts. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”
“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
He brought tears and smiles to kids, young and old, around the world. His life’s work was a labor of love and his simple formula was this: dream, diversify, and never miss an angle. He resented the limitation of his own imagination.
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