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Canvas Quote by Cleo Moore

“And I usually use myself as a model, posing in…” quote by Cleo Moore — Download Open image

“And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.”

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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

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Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

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They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

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None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

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They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

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I like to paint nudes mostly.

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I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

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Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting…

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I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

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Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

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It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

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We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best…

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The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Christopher Reeve

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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.

Leonardo da Vinci

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You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

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TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where,…

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

Edward Enninful

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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant…

Lewis H. Lapham

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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night…

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

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Wassily Kandinsky

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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…

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