Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

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 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 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.

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.

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

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'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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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

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

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there.

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

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.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.