Canvas Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Paint, Turbines

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• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Divine Beauty, Mountain Peaks

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• Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Climbing, Ribs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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• You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at...
  The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

  Edward Steichen

  Wall, Museums, Typewriters

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• It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rain, Self, Expression

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• Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

  Scott Weiland

  Song, Writing, Brushes

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• An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Thinking, Difficult Work

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• My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

  Charlize Theron

  Jobs, Character, Blank

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• Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Future, Mean, Promise

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Lying, Winter

  "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

  Steven Pressfield

  War, Artist, Squares

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.23, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

  Paul Gauguin

  Courage, Sun, Glory

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly know it. They blend in, like a speck on a canvas. But others blaze with such intensity, they light up the sky. You can't help but notice them, marvel at them. Those are the ones that never last long. They can't. They use up all their energy quickly

  Sarah Jio

  Stars, Light, Years

  Sarah Jio (2013). “The Last Camellia: A Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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• 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.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Blank

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• I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

  Sophia Myles

  Grandmother, Half, Way

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

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• Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Doctors

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ducks, Bills, Restaurants

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Possibility

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• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfect

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

  Allison Mackie

  Art, Jobs, Expression

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

  Cheryl Richardson

  Positive, Artist, Law Of Attraction

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• He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

  Charles Dickens

  Blood, Sea, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.148

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• He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Passion, Mad

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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