Canvas Quotes - Page 22

• I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

  Garry Trudeau

  Perspective, Pieces, Littles

  Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Ideas, Faces, Arbitrary

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• It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, Good Things

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  Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

  Kai Greene

  Art, Bodybuilding, Self

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011

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• Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Art, Self, Paper

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• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Space, Design, Events

  "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952

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• Oh, popular applause! what heart of man
  Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
  The wisest and the best feel urgent need
  Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
  But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas!
  With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
  And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.100, Routledge

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• We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Worry, May, Moments

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• A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

  Roger Verge

  Food, Cooking, Recipes

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• Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

  Tiko Kerr

  Courage, Paint, Teach

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• To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

  Robert Henri

  Looks, Painting, Like Something

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Morning, Inspirational Life

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• It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

  James Nares

  Design, Balance, Umbilical Cord

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• The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Character, Eye

  "Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since Star Wars, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Color, Careers, Ideas

  "Nolan Gerard Funk Joins The Cool Kids". Interview with Javy Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Butterfly, Doors

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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• Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Games, Accomplishment

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• Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Gadflies, Masterpiece

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• There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

  Ragnar Tørnquist

  Two, Empty, Taxes

  "Fictional character: April Ryan". "The Longest Journey" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  Camille Pissarro

  First Impression, Firsts, Principles

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• You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Reality, Mind, Want

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• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  George Hickenlooper

  Movie, Creating, Hollywood

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Paint

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• Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Appreciate, Secret

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