Canvas Quotes - Page 20

• He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Passion, Mad

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.91

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• Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Blank

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• I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

  Sophia Myles

  Grandmother, Half, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Looks, Cows

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfect

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Doctors

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• Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ducks, Bills, Restaurants

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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• When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, People, Abstract Painting

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• I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.

  William Hogarth

  Player, Men, Dumb

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• It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Clever, Enough, Craftsman

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Possibility

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• People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly know it. They blend in, like a speck on a canvas. But others blaze with such intensity, they light up the sky. You can't help but notice them, marvel at them. Those are the ones that never last long. They can't. They use up all their energy quickly

  Sarah Jio

  Stars, Light, Years

  Sarah Jio (2013). “The Last Camellia: A Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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• You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Positive, Artist, Law Of Attraction

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• The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

  Philip Guston

  Finishing, Links, Unending

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Color, Joy

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• A canvas is never empty.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Empty, Materials

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.21, MIT Press

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• He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

  Charles Dickens

  Blood, Sea, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.148

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• On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

  Walter Sickert

  One Day, Sitting, Done

  Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

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• So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

  Allison Mackie

  Art, Jobs, Expression

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• I advance all of my canvas at one time.

  Paul Cezanne

  Methodology, One Time

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• I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Children, Inspirational Life

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• What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Adventure, Add, Painter

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• It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Perfection, Next

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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