Canvas Quotes

• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Book, Smell, Library

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

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Forget Everything, Theory

  "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• 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.

  Norman McLaren

  Philosophy, Simple, Delight

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

  Anne Stevenson

  Violent, Slap

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• I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

  Sam Mendes

  Challenges, Stories, Way

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

  Alfred Sisley

  Painting, Problem, Animation

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• My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

  Ron Moody

  Night, Training, Needs

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• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Home, Hollywood

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• I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

  Sophia Bush

  Fun, Character, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

  Matthew Lawrence

  Slap

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• It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, Use

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..

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• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  Ed Koch

  Motivational, Art, Pain

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

  Terry Brooks

  Fantasy, Enough, Paint

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• 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.

  Joan Miro

  Emotion, Born, Feels

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• 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.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Paint, Born

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Wonder, Empty, Certain

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

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

  Pierre Bonnard

  Important, Remember, Impressed

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• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Art, Perspective

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  Camille Pissarro

  Add, Firsts

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• As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Needs, Done

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• n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dream, Unique, Secular Society

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Feelings, Historical

  Willem De Kooning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1969). “Willem de Kooning”

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

  Cleo Moore

  Mirrors, Dabs, Use

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