#mo

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#away #bad #feelings #figure #gnawing

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#box #check #fence #forward #illusion

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#people #personal #react #songs #strongly

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

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

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