“Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it.”
James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Source: Sam's Letters to Jennifer
“The only control that I excercize [in painting] is to not throw too much paint next to the canvas.”
MR1, 177; p. 215
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
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“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
Danny Kaye (1913–1987) American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1941 - 1967
Source: Three Hundred Years of American Painting, Alexander Eliot; New York: Time Inc., 1957, p. 298
Frank Stella (1936) American artist
Quotes, 1960 - 1970 <br class="br">Source: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=XUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49, Vol. 64, nr. 3, 19 January 1968, p. 49
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977) British conductor
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
quote c. 1959, in 'Preface to Stripe Painting', by Carl Andre, in Sixteen Americans ed. Miller, p. 76
Andre's remark is referring to Andre's close artist-friend Frank Stella, the American minimalist painter
“The art of painting is the Art of hollowing out a canvas.”
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) French painter
from an essay by Roger Fry, in 'The Dial', Camden, New Jersey, September 1926
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Franz Kline (1910–1962) American painter
1950's, Conversations With Artists, 1957
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862) painter from the Northern Netherlands
(original Dutch, citaat van B.C. Koekkoek:) Ik maak vooraf geene tekeningen van het voorwerp of de voorwerpen, die ik op het doek of paneel wil schilderen.. ..maar begin dadelijk het ontworpen plan op het doek te plaatsen – Na mijne compositie eerst behoorlijk geschetst en beredeneerd te hebben, voornamelijk de schikking van licht en donker, begin ik dezelve met olieverw breed te schilderen, zoveel trachtende de tint of het coloriet er in te brengen, in welke ik mijn landschap.. ..wil gezien hebben.. ..als het geheel afgeschilderd is.
Source: Herinneringen aan en Mededeelingen van…' (1841), p. 98-99
“Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent.”
Lillian Hellman book Pentimento
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973), Introduction
Context: Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.