Canvas Quotes - Page 6

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

  Barry McGee

  Art, Want, Today

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• The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

  Norman Rockwell

  People, Evil, Lazy

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• I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

  Erin Wasson

  Believe, Creating, Accessories

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• It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.

  Christopher McDowell

  Mother, Teacher, Garden

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• But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Self, Judging

  'ARTnews Annual', Artnews Associates., October 1966.

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• Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Crowds, Gleam, Margins

  'Merlin and The Gleam' (1889) st. 9

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• The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Future, Past, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about.

  Marc Jacobs

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.

  Jason Silva

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

  Phil Ochs

  Running, Pain, Answers

  "Song: Flower Lady (Pleasures of the Harbor)". October 31, 1967.

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• You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and -women who are telling the story, it's the greatest result. I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas.

  Laura Dern

  Thinking, People, Achieve

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

  Yves Klein

  Want, Next, France

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.43, 1974.

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• You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

  Dave Ramsey

  Week, Paint, Clean

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015

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• That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Dream, Art, Block

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• I think you do have to attend to the sort of core values of film, which is that the audience wants to have a relationship with the characters, they want to understand what's going on there. There are certain things that comics can have a little bit more freedom in then when you're asking an audience to engage in it as a piece of cinema, but I do feel like the canvas is much bigger and wider and that we're being invited and frankly challenged to take risks, to be a little bit different. And that's fun, that's exciting.

  Hutch Parker

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Writing, Language, Scene

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• Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

  Mark Vonnegut

  Crazy, Ideas, Paper

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• Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

  Thomas Dreier

  Thinking, Mind, Painting

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• Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Blank, Staring, Slap

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• I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Information, Conversation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.

  Richard Schmid

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• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  Maiara Walsh

  Numbers, Aluminum Cans, Bags

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• You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  White, Trying, Pieces

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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