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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. Norman Ralph Augustine | top
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. Charles Babbage | top
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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer | top
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When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. Lindsey Buckingham | top
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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. Joseph Fiennes | top
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I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. Graham Hill | top
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When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. Reed Hundt | top
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money. Patricia Ireland | top
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But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. Donald Judd | top
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Edward Koch | top
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Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was. Linda Lavin | top
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I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas. Matthew Lawrence | top
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An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays. Arthur Lowe | top
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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. Norman McLaren | top
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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. Sam Mendes | top
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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. Ron Moody | top
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And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. Cleo Moore | top
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. Camille Pissarro | top
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Jackson Pollock | top
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One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. Robert Rauschenberg | top
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Edward Steichen | top
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. Patrick Stewart | top
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. John Millington Synge | top
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire | top
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Charles Dudley Warner | top