Canvas Quotes - Page 15

• Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

  Ian K. Smith

  Beach, Horse, Ocean

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• When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Country, Art, Fun

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• Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

  Carl Jung

  Music, Silence, Sound

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• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, Opening Up

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• The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Political, Gestures, Moral

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• To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beautiful, Empty, Ends

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• This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Titles, Would Be

  Girl, Interrupted (1993)

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• Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Food, Cooking

  "The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy".

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• Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

  Lillian Hellman

  Dog, Children, Sea

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

  Scott McCloud

  Path, Infinite, Ends

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• One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, One Day, Portraits

  Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”

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• An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Artist, Squares

  Henri Matisse, Susan Lambert, Victoria and Albert Museum (1981). “Matisse lithographs”

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• Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

  Amy Adams

  Makeup, Perfect, Interesting

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• A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.

  Carl Safina

  Light, Curiosity, Depth

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• My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

  Dave Navarro

  Tattoo, Meaningful, Powerful

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• I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Looks, Flesh

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

  Frida Kahlo

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• Every canvas is a journey all its own.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Journey

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• And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

  Scott McCloud

  Opportunity, Done, Way

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

  Alexis Carrel

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

  J. G. Ballard

  Time, Greatest Movie, Events

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• Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

  Bob Ross

  Touching, Firsts, Students

  "Television: Bob Ross, the Frugal Gourmet of Painting" by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, Section 2; Page 33; Column 1, December 22, 1991.

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• I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

  Trent Reznor

  Sound, Scene

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• If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, Paint, Turbines

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