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the canvas

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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. Dan Brown

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. Louise L. Hay

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity. Asger Jorn

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished. William Baziotes

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. Elbert Hubbard

The painter paints his brushes black Through the canvas runs a crack Portrait of the pain never answers back. Phil Ochs

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