Norman McLaren Art Quotations

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

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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.

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.

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