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…

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So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit...

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit...

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I...

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I...

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be...

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be...

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the...

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the...

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return...

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return...

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral...

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral...

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

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

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and...

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and...

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new -...

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new -...

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

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

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there...

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there...

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a...

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a...

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is...

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is...