Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

A canvas is never empty.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

An empty canvas is full.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

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.

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

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

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

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is 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 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 am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

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 like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

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