At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides… — David Allen Copy Share Image
I am but a blank canvas, because everyone interprets you in a different way, and I think that's quite nice. — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image