Ollie Johnston quotes

“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.”
-- Ollie Johnston

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“I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.”
-- Ollie Johnston

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“The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.”
-- Ollie Johnston

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“Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.”
-- Ollie Johnston

#Drawing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.”
-- Ollie Johnston

#Drawing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183

“Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.”

Source : 1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun. 85th birthday interview.

“You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.”

“To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.”

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.”

“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”

“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.”

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”