Canvas Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canvas Nervous Nervous system Painting Patterns
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums. — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images. — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become… — Robert Motherwell 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 the connection… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
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,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
