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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
Explore more quotes by Norman McLaren
"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."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"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."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"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."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
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