Winsor McCay quotes
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“Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.”
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“Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 McCaySource : Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”
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“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
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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin
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Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”
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“TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard”
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Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd
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