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.
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
