Best 173 quotes in «canvas quotes» category

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 can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

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.

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a 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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

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.

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.

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.