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16 quotes by Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short...
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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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