#mo

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

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 #filmmaker #into

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

— Norman McLaren

#jacques #like #me #mon #new

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

#controls #difficult #element #fewer #higher

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

— Norman McLaren

#forms #give #gives #harder #rounded

Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in the company of either Paul or Edgar, he could not escape a lurking suspicion that a just Providence, seeing the DeVanes so well endowed with physical beauty, had determined that there was no reason to spoil the work by adding intelligence to the mix. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#humor #lord-john #beauty

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#common #common ground #degree #develops #find

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#been #day #diet #either #every

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#cannot #destroy #enjoyed #listened #moment