#canvas

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

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

— Georges Rouault

#both #canvas #discards #everything #forgets

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. ↗

— Carly Simon

#canvas #coming #discover #feel #i

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#becomes #canvas #glamorous #masterpiece #uninspiring

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. ↗

— Ron Moody

#bits #business #canvas #colour #fill

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'. ↗

— Albert Wolff

#draw #had #his #learned #made

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. ↗

— Jada Berglund

#inspiration #life #live #paint #sky

The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #conceptual-art #empty #funny #humor

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

— Cleo Moore

#front #i #mirror #model #myself