Canvas Quotes - Page 23

• There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

  Ragnar Tørnquist

  Two, Empty, Taxes

  "Fictional character: April Ryan". "The Longest Journey" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Reality, Mind, Want

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• Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Writing, Light, Play

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  Ang Lee

  Chance, Film, Bigs

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• I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

  Ron White

  Believe, Creative, Levels

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• The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

  Alfred de Vigny

  Paper, Firsts, Sound

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• I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Character, Always Trying, Yesterday

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• The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Creativity, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid 'ancillary' jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work'.

  Eliza Bennett

  Jobs, Hard Work, Caring

  "This Artist Painstakingly Sews Her Incredible Art Into The Palms Of Her Own Hands" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2014.

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• A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Musician, Paper

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012

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• The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

  Andrew Davidson

  Regret, Yesterday, Today

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.132, Anchor

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• I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

  Kat Von D

  Stories, Legs, Lines

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• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Artist, Pigment

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Journey, Essentials

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• [...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Age, Needs

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• My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Color, Years, Giving

  "Model Minute: Alessandra Ambrosio Loves Melissa's Shoes". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

  Damien Hirst

  Procrastination, Guy, Way

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• Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

  John Constable

  Light, Perfection, Dew

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, People, Perfection

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• I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

  Martin Scorsese

  Trying, Way, Revelations

  Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette (1999). “Martin Scorsese: Interviews”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

  William Merritt Chase

  Lying, Imagine, Mask

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• My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

  Joan Miro

  Bird, Mind, Way

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• People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Solitude, Facts, Kind

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