Canvas Quotes - Page 3

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

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

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

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

A canvas is never empty.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

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.

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

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

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.

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'