I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take',… — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think… — Louise L. Hay Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical… — Francis Lawrence Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid… — Tiko Kerr Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
