Quotes by Norman Mclaren - Page 1

Animation is manipulating the difference.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Animation
Differences
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The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Art
Evolve
Fascinated
Process
Art Always Me
Evolving
Art Me Always
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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Art
Animation
Drawing
Moving
Drawings
Drawn
Move
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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Giving
Harder
Smooth
Sound
Angular
Forms
Rounded
Sharper
Sounds
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So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Age
New Things
People
Return
Age People Will
Earlier
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Film
Take Me
Unique
Jacques
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Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Color
Done
Elements
Distracting
Element
Gate
Japanese
Superbly
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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.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Drawing
Effects
Exposing
Harmony
Patterns
Two
Textual
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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.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Canvas
Delight
Direct
Philosophy
Simple
Brush
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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.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Art
Desire
Film
Moving
Move
Phase
Previous
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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.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Art
Canvas
Closeness
Hypnosis
Intimacy
Painter
Exists
Preserve
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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 / Animator
Return
Period
Previous
Same Thing
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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 creature.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Consciousness
Human Intelligence
Addition
Creature
Precious
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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 color film.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Black And White
Color
Film
Actual
Life Black And White Black
Exactly
Unlike
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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 sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.
Norman Mclaren / Animator
Art
Balance
Contrast
Formal
Moral
Sensitivity
Should Have
Unity
Art Work Good
Amoral
Work Art Good
Material
Qualities
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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 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 / Animator
Quality
Elements
Fewer
Higher
Numbers
Shapes
Size
Tone
Controls
Element
Inch
Lower
Note
Shape
Stroke
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