Canvas Quotes - Page 3

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting

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

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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 go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Who I Am, Play

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• The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Print, Wells, Closest

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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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• When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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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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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Paint, Form, Process

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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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• 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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• Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Creativity, Sadness, Artist

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insecurity, Blank, Certain

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Evil

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• Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

  Mark Ryden

  Feelings, Painting, Paint

  "Sincerely, Mark Ryden". Interview with Dina Gachman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2014.

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• I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

  Lee Krasner

  Alive, Breathe, Pigment

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• Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

  Robin Sharma

  Eternity, Mere

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.3, Jaico Publishing House

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• History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Pride, Men, Flames

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• The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Artist, Mind, Paint

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• A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

  Rene Magritte

  Dream, Poetry, Poetic

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

  Gerard Way

  Crazy, World, Want

  "Catching Up With The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys Writer Gerard Way". Interview with Sean Edgar, www.pastemagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

  Nick Cave

  Art, School, Night

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• A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

  John Berger

  Communication, Artist, Drawing

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.31, Vintage

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  Queen Latifah

  Life, Sweet, Broken

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

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