#canvas

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. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#big #canvas #challenge #could #deliberately

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. ↗

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

#blank canvas #canvas #full #jazz #possibilities

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. ↗

— David Johansen

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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

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play? ↗

— Steve Sabol

#always #been #canvas #even #face

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

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

— Edward Steichen

#artist #begins #blank #blank canvas #canvas

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

— Anne Stevenson

#i #just #like #poetry #slaps

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