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Canvas Quotes

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Life Great Life Is A You Canvas Big

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.

Viggo Mortensen

Home Day Party Hollywood Canvas Off

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Jackson Pollock

Painting Canvas Stretch Before Ever

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Art Poetry People Write Canvas Big

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

Enjoy Sometimes Leaving Canvas Paint

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Chance Personal Canvas Rare Big

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.

Art School Start Makeup Canvas Many

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Stars Victory Enough Canvas Paint

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

Pharrell Williams

Treat You Canvas Air Out Paint

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

Richard Phillips

Makeup Face Accomplish Body Canvas

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

James Rosenquist

Style Medicine Find Pictures Canvas

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

Artist Living Canvas Experiment

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Time Painting You Look Canvas See

With the dramatic canvas, I found you could still operate with the documentarist's observational eye.

Paul Greengrass

Eye You Canvas Dramatic Still Found

I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.

Television Movies More Canvas Just

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Challenge Story Way Canvas Tell Big

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Good Perspective Canvas Little Just

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

Today History Art Want Canvas Up

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

Andrea Riseborough

Hair Face Dark Skin Fair Canvas

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

Eye Doing Canvas Stage Whatever Up

As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.

Women Beautiful Boy Circus Canvas

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Words Poetry Canvas Just Like Were

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

Me Spirit Canvas Paint Fifties

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

Doing Emotion Canvas Whatever Paint

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