The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

Other great fighters like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali have fallen to the canvas. Why not Julio Cesar Chavez?

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.

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

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

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