Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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.

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.'

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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'll take anything and slap it on a 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 have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.