Best color & canvas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.”

Feelings Color Series Landscape Combination Canvas Vibrancy

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.”

Feels Littles Stills Bigs Beautiful Joy Pieces Color Like You Scene Paper Paint Corners Within You Canvas Renewal Serene Beautiful Colors

Author:Prem Rawat

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.”

Study Pieces Subjects Color Canvas

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”

Want Actors Color Painting Directors Paint Canvas Palette

Author:Denzel Washington

“What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.”

Way Art Different Form Lines Color Perception Art Is Echoes Canvas

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.”

Way Trying Use Emotion Color Expression Function Infinity Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Guido Molinari

“Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

Art Dies Literature Memories Effort Air Color Broken Cease Painter Fades Canvas Fragments Marble Pedestal Oratory Art Music

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.”

Ifs Want I Can Ideas Different Careers Color Painting Canvas Renaissance Different Colors

Author:Nolan Gerard Funk

“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”

Feels Heart Kind May Real Beauty Environment Color Intellectual Deeper Real Love Canvas Abstraction Marble Outlines

Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”

Art Study Doors Color Painting Wings Sticks Tiny Butterfly Canvas Insects Pencils Combining Barns Butterfly Wings

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.”

Thinking Wells Long Sometimes Bigs Chance Too Much One Thing Color Painting Paint Wide Landscape Broads Canvas Pencils

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.”

Bigs Life Is Color Paint Combination Canvas

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.”

“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.”

Feels Real Reason Might Eye Today Force My Own Example Color Computer Assuming Paint Surface Screens Sophisticated Canvas Reproduction Simulation Computer Screen

Author:Ryan McGinness

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”

Long Art Enough Hands Lasts Beautiful Color Paint Autumn Beautiful Things Canvas

Book:Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

“There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.”

Feelings Joy Stuff Results Quality Seeing Color Materials Paper Harder Canvas Brushes Richness Lush Pigment

Author:Gene Black

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.”

Giving Mind Self Artist Practice Color Expression Easier Access Canvas Masterpiece Self Expression Palette Captivating

Author:Jim Rohn

“I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.”

Thinking Doe Stills Different Use Form Media Color Screens Painter Canvas Organize

Author:Loretta Lux

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