Stephen Sondheim Quotes

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

Stephen Sondheim

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• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Alone

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Canvas

• 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
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Up
  • Art
  • History

• When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Home
  • Party
  • Day

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

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Perspective
  • Canvas

• Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Growing
  • Lies

• A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Beginning
  • Canvas

• 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. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Canvas

• The whole answer is there on the canvas.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Canvas

• I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Up
  • Canvas

• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Canvas

• The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Canvas

• I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Long
  • Poetry
  • Canvas

• If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Up
  • Success
  • Canvas

• You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an indigenous community, because that's where I feel at home.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Home
  • Community
  • Possibility

• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Evil

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

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Possibility
  • Canvas