I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. – Norman McLaren
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
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. – Norman McLaren
In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson