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Canvas Quote by Danny Fox

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“I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.”

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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I…

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I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

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I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and…

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Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

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Women really like the horses, more so than men.

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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

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If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a…

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

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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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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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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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