The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Life is a Canvas given to you to see how colourful you can make it” — RJ Yolande Mendes Copy Share Image
When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have… — El-P Copy Share Image
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and… — William Rothenstein Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I think you do have to attend to the sort of core values of film, which is that the audience wants to… — Hutch Parker Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.” — Max L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense. — Goldie Copy Share Image
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
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