Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

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.

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!

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

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

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

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.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

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

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

A blank canvas provides the artist in you with the perfect opportunity to express yourself! There is absolutely no limit to what you can create. To execute an artful tableau all you need is a willingness to experiment with paper flower crafts.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.