Quotes About Norman Mclaren

#1. Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Norman McLaren

#2. Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Norman McLaren

#3. It's hurting my soul

J. Lynn

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

Norman McLaren

#5. 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

#6. Animation is manipulating the difference.

Norman McLaren

#7. 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

#8. Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf.

Sanjo Jendayi

#9. The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Norman McLaren

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Norman McLaren

#14. 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

#15. The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Richard Dawkins

#16. Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Norman McLaren

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

Norman McLaren

#18. 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

#19. In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marlo Thomas

#20. This is us. This is the edge of danger. This is a love that has changed everything for everyone.

Karina Halle

#21. 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

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

Norman McLaren

#23. The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

Sabine Baring-Gould