Best artist & canvas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.”

Looks Has Beens Important Artist Interesting Path Taken Outcomes Canvas Routes Most Interesting

Author:Georges Braque

“I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.”

World Soul Whole Artist Paint Whole World Canvas

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.”

Mind Artist Paint Canvas Spectators

Author:Okakura Kakuzo

“The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.”

Art Artist Judging Court Disappear Trials Canvas Glances Jury Prosecutor

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.”

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Author:Kazimir Malevich

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

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Author:Lawren Harris

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

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Author:A. Y. Jackson

“It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.”

Has Beens Seems Artist Fear Strange Painting Majors Factors Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:David Luiz

“Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.”

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Author:Semir Zeki

“No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash.”

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Author:Semir Zeki

“Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

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Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

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Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

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