Canvas Quotes - Page 14

• The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

  Bill Johnson

  Mind, Spirit, Paint

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• I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

  John Dyer

  Leaving, Sometimes, Paint

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• Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

  Francis Bacon

  Patterns, Painting, Nervous

  Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

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• The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life.

  Steve Coogan

  Strong, Church, Culture

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

  John Constable

  Feet, Six

  Letter to Rev. John Fisher, October 23, 1821.

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• But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.

  Alyson Richman

  Laughter, Memories, Air

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin

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• In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Heart, Character

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• I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.

  Jose Parla

  Past, Roots, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

  Jose Parla

  Art, Wall, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Art, Autumn

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

  Leonid Afremov

  Knives, Careers, Oil

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• The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

  Christopher Reeve

  Kitchen, Kind, Bigger

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

  Maddie Ziegler

  Makeup, Hair, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  World, May, Way

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• May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  Heart, Eye, Artist

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

  Anne Sweeney

  Art, Growing Up, Struggle

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• My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.

  Ryan McGinness

  Real, Eye, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Writing, Creating, Details

  Interview with Helen Earnshaw, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 12, 2013.

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• Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.

  Ron White

  Thinking, Creative, Working Together

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected way. Authors, composers and artists have tried - and here we've rounded up our favorite quotes that help to begin forming structure around such an unspoken universal force. Which are most meaningful to you? If you had to sum up the power of music and sound in one sentence, what would you say?"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

  Leopold Stokowski

  Meaningful, Moving, Artist

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

  Franz Kline

  Thinking, White, People

  David Anfam, Franz Kline, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (1994). “Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961”, Menil Foundation

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• Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!

  Mirka Mora

  Art, Ideas, Waiting

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• God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Grace, Despair

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2016

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