Canvas Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

  Leonid Afremov

  Knives, Careers, Oil

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

  Christopher Reeve

  Kitchen, Kind, Bigger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

  Maddie Ziegler

  Makeup, Hair, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  World, May, Way

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• May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  Heart, Eye, Artist

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

  Anne Sweeney

  Art, Growing Up, Struggle

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• My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.

  Ryan McGinness

  Real, Eye, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Creating, Details

  Interview with Helen Earnshaw, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 12, 2013.

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• Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.

  Ron White

  Thinking, Creative, Working Together

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Art, Autumn

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

  Jose Parla

  Art, Wall, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.

  Jose Parla

  Past, Roots, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Bill Johnson

  Mind, Spirit, Paint

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• I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

  John Dyer

  Leaving, Sometimes, Paint

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

  Francis Bacon

  Patterns, Painting, Nervous

  Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

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• Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Voice, Expectations, May

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• I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Children, Inspirational Life

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• A canvas is an arena in which to act.

  Jackson Pollock

  Arena

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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