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• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting

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

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• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  Patrick Stewart

  Sentimental, Absurd, Should

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Artist, Paint

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

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• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  White, House, Littles

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Business Deals, People

  Trump: The Art of the Deal ch. 1 (1987)

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• Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

  Roberta Flack

  Real, Book, Color

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• When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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• I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Who I Am, Play

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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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• Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Creativity, Sadness, Artist

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insecurity, Blank, Certain

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Evil

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• Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

  Mark Ryden

  Feelings, Painting, Paint

  "Sincerely, Mark Ryden". Interview with Dina Gachman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

  Robin Sharma

  Eternity, Mere

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.3, Jaico Publishing House

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• I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

  Lee Krasner

  Alive, Breathe, Pigment

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• History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Pride, Men, Flames

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Artist, Mind, Paint

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• A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

  Rene Magritte

  Dream, Poetry, Poetic

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• The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

  George Gilder

  Keys, Entrepreneur, Roles

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

  John Noble

  Personality, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back into 20 or 40 or 60 hours of a television series. I think a great movie is really amazing. But, television does give you a larger canvas.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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