Top 1200 Empty Canvas Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

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.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and? different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

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.

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

The mild creaminess of cottage cheese makes it a perfect blank canvas for almost any flavor combination, savory or sweet. Since it's so soft, I usually try to give it some textural contrast in the form of something crunchy. Brightening it up with acid is also a must.

You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.

I don't like shopping that much. I do it for an hour, and then I feel empty inside and weird.

In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.