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Canvas Quote by John Dyer

“I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.” quote by John Dyer — Download Open image

“I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.”

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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

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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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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 or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an…

Lewis H. Lapham

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 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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