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Marc Davis

"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."

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"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."

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"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

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"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."

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"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."

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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!"
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"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told."
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"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."
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"Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."
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"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it."
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"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood."
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"Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market."
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"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation."
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