Canvas Quotes - Page 5

• I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

  John Noble

  Personality, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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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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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Morning, Art, Sunshine

  "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Thinking, Reality, Worry

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• Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above
  [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

  Jackson Pollock

  Moving, Use, Ease

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

  Dane Cook

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

  Shailene Woodley

  Art, Acting, Painting

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• The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction.

  Duncan Jones

  Real, Battle, Littles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's a sci-fi show on network television, and everybody knows that it's an amazing feat that we've been on for so many years. The fans, the press and everyone has been so incredibly kind and so incredibly supportive that we feel like it's a success, in any way, shape or form. It's an expensive canvas.

  J.H. Wyman

  Years, Supportive, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

  Veena Sud

  Littles, Able, Stand Alone

  Source: collider.com

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• I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

  Loretta Lux

  Thinking, Media, Color

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• The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

  Aaron Siskind

  Believe, Struggle, Fighting

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• I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.

  Glenn Ligon

  Writing, Painting, I Realized

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas."

  Glenn Ligon

  Guy, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

  Creative, Innovation, Enough

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

  Lisa Gerrard

  Responsibility, Desire, Literature

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• Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there.

  Glenn Ligon

  Decision, Musician, Jazz

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Mind, Collaboration

  Annie Dillard (1982). “Living by fiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from.  I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Numbers, Giving

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• Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.

  Tamera Alexander

  Knowing, People, Impossible

  Tamera Alexander (2011). “A Lasting Impression”, p.384, Bethany House

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• In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

  Guido Molinari

  Expression, Color, Trying

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• Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.

  James Elkins

  Portraits, Records, Movement

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

  Larry Holmes

  Hearing, Faces, Fighter

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