Norman McLaren Quotes

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren

Art, Move, Animation

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, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Norman McLaren

Work, Good, Art

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
Norman McLaren

Age, Sometimes, Spirit

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 same.
Norman McLaren

Simple, Philosophy, Same

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
Norman McLaren

Human, Social, Spirit

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Norman McLaren

Two, Same, Film

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.
Norman McLaren

Help, Keep, Film

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, but it's different, it's new.
Norman McLaren

Different, Same, Spirit

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Norman McLaren

Same, Between, Film

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 a color film.
Norman McLaren

Life, Black, Why

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Norman McLaren

Art, Desire, Film

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
Norman McLaren

Film, Unique, Quite

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, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Norman McLaren

Control, Made, Difficult

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
Norman McLaren

Art, Process, Evolving

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Norman McLaren

Done, Hell, Film

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Norman McLaren

Give, Sounds, Harder

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Artist

Born: April 11, 1914

Died: January 27, 1987

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