Norman McLaren Quotes

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• I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
• In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is…
• I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike…
• So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
• Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
• Animation is manipulating the difference.
• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the…
• By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
• Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
• The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance,…
• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch,…
• Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
• The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
• But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a…
• Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.
• I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way,…
• Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

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