Canvas Quotes
On blank canvases, art, and starting again.
These canvas quotes draw a comparison between a painter's intimacy with their canvas and an athlete facing a fresh season like a blank slate. Read more in our Artist quotes.
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.
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I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
Always Quotes
I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.
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.
I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin....
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
Art Quotes
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
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.
Artist Quotes
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
