Canvas Quotes - Page 18

• The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.

  John Szarkowski

  Beautiful, Photography, Ivory

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• Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what her painting isn't, until she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is; you're off and running.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Thinking, White

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• The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Attitude, Men, Way

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

  Cindy Sherman

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Principles, Painter, Visuals

  Carolee Schneemann (2010). “Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises”, State Univ of New York Pr

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• My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Thinking, People

  "The Insider Interviews: Tom Hiddleston". Industrial Scripts Interview, screenplayscripts.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Yoga, Soul

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• Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas its nightmares. Most of the paintings of the great painters like Paul Gaugin or Picasso are almost like vomit. They could not contain their agony and suffering - it was so much they threw it on the canvas to get relief. The real objective art is not a relief; it is not a sickness that you want to get rid of. It is a blissfulness that you want to share. And by sharing, it grows; you have more of it, the more it is shared.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Real, Creativity

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• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  Patrick Duffy

  Art, Dancer, Works Of Art

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• Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Jazz, Possibility

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• She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

  Thrity Umrigar

  War, Evil, Sides

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• Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Forever, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.

  Tablo

  Mirrors, Faces, Please

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• I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

  Jane Yolen

  Jealous, Artist, Impact

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• When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim`s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the Reaping.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Dream, Bed

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

  Dan Brown

  Law, Physics, Paint

  "Angels & Demons".

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• I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Knives, Intensity

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• No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Memories, Colour

  Robert Aris Willmott (1852). “A Journal of Summer Time in the Country”, p.188

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• He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

  Irving Stone

  Self, Design, Made

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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  Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Agonizing, Frida

  Diego Rivera, Gladys March (1960). “My art, my life: an autobiography”

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• My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Color, Use, World

  Roy Lichtenstein, Jack Cowart, Katonah Museum of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (2009). “Lichtenstein in process”

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• You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

  Steven Pressfield

  War, Artist, Squares

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.23, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  Caio Fonseca

  Magic, Mysterious Life, Elements

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• We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

  Don Cheadle

  Artist, Trying, Miles

  "Don Cheadle: The Time Is Right for a Miles Davis Biopic" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 15, 2010.

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