Canvas Quotes - Page 2

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

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Pistols, Works Of Art

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• It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

  John Millington Synge

  Moving, Men, Race

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.14, Northwestern University Press

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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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• 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.

  William Morris Hunt

  Knowledge, Wells, Draws

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• 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.

  Reed Hundt

  Artist, Giving, Paint

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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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• I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

  Imelda Marcos

  Gratitude, Shoes, Great Love

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

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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• I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

  Danny Pudi

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Success, Yoga, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

  Janet Fitch

  Body, Becoming, Scar

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

  Graham Hill

  Art, Track, Car

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

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• Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Remarkable, Has Beens

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• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  Patrick Stewart

  Sentimental, Absurd, Should

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• Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Business Deals, People

  Trump: The Art of the Deal ch. 1 (1987)

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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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• A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Artist, Paint

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  White, House, Littles

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Keyboards, Paint

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 2012

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• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting

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

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• I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Hypnosis, Film

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• I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

  Camille Pissarro

  Jewels, Monsters, Sometimes

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