Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.