Canvas Quotes

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.

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

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 don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

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.

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 get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

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 prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

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.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

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.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.