Canvas Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

“Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.”

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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile.

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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this…

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