Canvas Quotes · Page 5

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

— Edvard Munch

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Give me a blank canvas, and I will give you the world.”

— Shauna Scheets

“Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of”

— Josh Stern

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

— Paul Mellon

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on…

— William Morris Hunt

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Proximity to death can alter your chain of priorities; it offers a canvas for forgiveness where there wasn't one previously.

— Emma D'Arcy

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

— Pam Brown

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until…

— David Hockney

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I…

— Vernon Davis

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

— Ron White

There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing…

— Gene Black

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She…

— Anonymous

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory…

— Elbert Hubbard

Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides…

— David Allen

No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be…

— Sarah Kay

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the…

— Richard Phillips

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks…

— Anne Lamott

Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your…

— Glenn Ligon

The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could…

— Virginia Dwan

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like…

— Winsor McCay

Maybe I can put it another way... Life, Charlie Brown, is like a deck chair." "Like a what?" "Have you ever been…

— Charles M. Schulz

Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit,…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

— Stephen Sondheim

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

“Life is a Canvas given to you to see how colourful you can make it”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

— Katherine Ryan

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

— Bob Hope

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

“Paint the canvas of the profession with vibrancies of passion.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma