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«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.»
Author: Alexander MacLaren
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Keywords:
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«Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.»
Author: Danny Kaye
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Comedian,
Entertainer,
Musician)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
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«Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.»
Author: Edward Steichen
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Keywords:
blank,
blanked,
blanker,
blanks,
canvas,
every other,
finished,
finished product,
photographer,
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the photographer
«A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.»
«An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures.»
«Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
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«[A canvas is] an arena in which to act.»
«As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(
Artist,
Painter)
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Keywords:
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«A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent»
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(
Actor,
Writer)
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About:
Painting
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