Winsor McCay famous quotes

Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.
-- Winsor McCay

#Couple #Drawing #Feet

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!
-- Winsor McCay

#Moon #Way #Slides

The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them.
-- Winsor McCay

#Wall #School #Kids

Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
-- Winsor McCay

#Father #Fighting #Names

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.
-- Winsor McCay

#Art #Luck #Done

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.
-- Winsor McCay

#Dream #Art #Character

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.
-- Winsor McCay

#Art #Luck #Done

Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.