Quotes with canvas

  • Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

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  • Camille Pissarro Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Donald Trump 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.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Anne Stevenson I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bob Beauprez 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.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Danny Kaye Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
    Danny Kaye
    American actor, singer and comedian (1911 - 1987)
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  • Voltaire Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Willem De Kooning Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bob Ross Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Elie Wiesel Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Donald Trump I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
    Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) inl.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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