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"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
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"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."
"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."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"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."
"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."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"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."
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