Canvas Art Ideas Quotes & Sayings

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry ... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination ... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed. — Joshua Reynolds

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. — Jean Rostand

Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going. — Caitlin Moran

'If I have to choose between love and nice hamburger, I allways go for hamburger. Shit happens faster in that case. — Amer Jaganjac

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don't choose the ideas, they choose me. I don't wait for them. They come without my permission! — Mirka Mora

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who are all about change-people who are supposed to be intellectually and culturally drawn to the idea of change and how the voice of a creative person affects the world on a bigger scale than just the canvas-I would expect a person in that position to have that open mind. It's only a sign of age that they become so locked in their own rules that they forget that this is what it's all about. — Marc Jacobs

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself. — William Wycherley

Is Lisa going to the prom?'
I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.'
You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.'
I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom.'
She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece.'Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were.'
That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded.' I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again.
Maybe you could take Justin to the prom,' she called after me, laughter in her voice. 'He is such a hottie.'
Shoot me now. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is incorrect. — Dave Barry

If you don't take control of your career, guess what? You'll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise. — Nicki Minaj

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. — Anton Chekhov

Don't you ever get in trouble for things like that at the school for the Incredibly gifted?" Jane asked. "No," Merissa said sadly. "Our talent is mischief, so whenever we do something bad they just encourage us to try harder. — Lizzie K. Foley

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

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Somebody took the time to notice me. Somebody was impressed with me, for once. — Shelley Sly

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people. — Bill Gross

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper, ... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery. — Henry David Thoreau

But Hannah's friend didn't understand the volatile balancing act between art and sanity, that the act of creation was like walking a tightrope during an earthquake. She didn't understand Hannah's stupid need for validation, or that the size of the audience increased the stakes and multiplied the fear. She didn't understand that creativity was dangerous, that, yes, there were some people who could stand before a canvas, paint a sunset that would bring the world to its knees, and return to their loved ones as a complete person who didn't hurt, didn't cry, didn't spill blood to appease the host of fickle muses. But Hannah did. Hannah's best ideas - sometimes her only ideas - were buried beneath the skin. — Jake Vander Ark

You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or you could say with equal justice that I never worked a day. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores! — Val Venis