Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

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

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

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.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!