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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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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."
"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"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."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"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."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
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