Canvas Quotes - Page 13

• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Color, Long

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Joy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

  David Dixon

  Fashion, Art, Breathing

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• The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Expression, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.275, e-artnow

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• When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

  Tom Cullen

  Girlfriend, Valentine, Flower

  "Tom Cullen " by Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

  Gunter Brus

  White, Space, Three

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

  Andy Serkis

  Giving, Acting, Bigger

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• I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

  Joe Average

  Art, Fun, Max

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• Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Real, Heart

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366

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• My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

  Keariene Muizz

  Art, Soul, Teeth

  New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.

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

  Walt Disney

  Expression, Symphony, Orchestra

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• There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

  Steve Martin

  Two, Needs, Done

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Drawing, People

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• In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Water, Secret

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• Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Stupid, Struggle

  "Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

  Kanye West

  Artist, World, Public Opinion

  "Kanye West Receives Honorary Doctorate From SAIC: Listen" by Eric Torres, pitchfork.com. May 11, 2015.

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• Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Color, Life Is, Paint

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• Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Criticism, Analysis

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.31, Arcade Publishing

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• As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

  Mitch Glazer

  Beautiful, Kids, Boys

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mitch Glazer Talks Passion Play". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 29, 2011.

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• Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.

  Rod Serling

  Art, Space, Special

  "Night Gallery". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969 - 1973.

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• I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Paint, Feels

  "One continuous accident mounting on top of another" by David Sylvester, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

  Pam Brown

  White, Waiting, Excitement

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