Canvas Quotes
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Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.
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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
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I like it first to be art, so actually dividing up the canvas is one of the most exciting things for me.
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
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I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
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I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.
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It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
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A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.
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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.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
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In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.
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Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.
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The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back.
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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
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Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
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Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
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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.
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I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
