Canvases Quotes
38 quotes by 29 authors
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I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.
— Larry Rivers
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I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both…
— Erykah Badu
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Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation,…
— Marc Chagall
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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which…
— Sharon Creech
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I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do…
— Skeme
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I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.
— Alexander Rodchenko
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The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of…
— Van Day Truex
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When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
— Gerhard Richter
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The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that…
— Gerhard Richter
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There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.
— Gustav Klimt
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The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,…
— Marc Chagall
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My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in…
— Jean Cocteau
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I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.
— Henri Matisse
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might…
— Claude Monet
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I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more…
— Claude Monet
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Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100…
— Claude Monet
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Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time,…
— Claude Monet
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A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
— Mark Rothko
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