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In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that. -- Alice Lowe
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. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. -- Bob Ross
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. -- Shailene Woodley
What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns. -- Terry Teachout
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising. -- Albert Oehlen
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. -- Michael Ironside
Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball. -- Tom Yawkey
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas. -- Brian Eno
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas. -- Henry Petroski
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. -- Caio Fonseca
Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup. -- Richard Phillips
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
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. -- Rodney Atkins
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. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. -- Jackson Pollock
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. -- Alfred Sisley
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. -- Paul Simonon
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. -- Swami Satchidananda
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. -- Oprah Winfrey
Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking. -- Mary Heilmann
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. -- Katherine Bernhardt
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. -- Myfanwy Pavelic
People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something. -- Maddie Ziegler
I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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. -- Denzel Washington
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting. -- Irving Stone

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