Norman McLaren

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

— Norman McLaren

#art #drawings #drawn #move #movements

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

#art #balance #contrast #formal #good

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

— Norman McLaren

#along #come #earlier #new #new things

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

#canvas #direct #make #militant #movie

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

#consciousness #creature #even #human #human intelligence

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

— Norman McLaren

#create #drawing #effects #exposing #film

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

— Norman McLaren

#film #help #keep

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

#comes #different #does #ever #i

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

#canvas #closeness #exists #film #his

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

#actual life #because #black #black and white #color