Canvas Quotes - Page 12

• Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).

  Junaid Jamshed

  Country, Pakistan, World

  Source: irusa.org

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• Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have the canvas in front of you and then you do stuff. I'm not saying it's easy to paint, but it's a solitary thing. Whereas movies combine so many different things from pre-production to production, sound design, production designing, leading, organizing, while still being creative.

  Baran Odar

  Art, Creative, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Men, Way, Paint

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Strong, Artist, Two

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit, and spirits don't worship one another. What makes you different from spirit overall is that you are locked into temporality. You have a body, like a piece of cloth that is decayable. While you stay in it, it's hard for you to have the same abilities that spirit has without a body. It is also easy to make mistakes about what is real, and how to go about things effectively.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Real, Mistake, Different

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• The thing video games had to learn was to write, which is not to let people choose their own stuff, but actually prescribe it. To say, "This character is not a blank canvas that you can project onto. I'm going to tell you what this character is like. And I'm going to tell you what happens to them. You're going to feel involved in other ways." Video games made the mistake of thinking everything had to be projectable, and this doesn't do that at all.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fighting, Space, Desire

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.

  Ron Finley

  Inspiring, Art, Garden

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• I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.

  Vera Nazarian

  Artist, Two, Creative

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  Keith Richards

  Silence, Musician, Songwriters

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• I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

  Danny Fox

  Past, Stuff, Way

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

  Jonathan Meades

  Construction Industry, Way, Likes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

  Lauren Groff

  Thinking, Stories, Natural

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

  Bernie Glassman

  Creating, Littles, Niche

  Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.16, Penguin

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• The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Reading, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Order, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value, or the old entertainment construction, which is we've gone down to this instant gratification, instant numbers, instant understanding, instant. But it's like the exact - it has perfected itself to the instant click, when, in a way, creativity originates as a much more complex beast. So we now have to reinvent a new canvas where we can indulge in it. And that's where the digital revolution creates a whole new ecosystem of entertainment.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Ecosystems, Digital Revolution

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.

  Russell Brand

  Self, What If, Return

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Government, Perfect

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• Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Struggle, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

  Nam June Paik

  Rays, Tubes

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• Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.

  David Mumford

  Art, Real, Unique

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• The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Sculpture, Woods, Painting

  "Ellsworth Kelly creates from all angles". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.

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• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  Bob Beauprez

  Stars, Victory, Voters

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