Canvas Quotes

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

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.

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.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

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.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

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

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

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

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

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.

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.