Canvas Quotes

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

— Matthew Lawrence

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

— Stephanie Perkins

“The world is but a canvas to our imagination”

— Henry David Thoreau

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

— Robin Sharma

A canvas is never empty.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Colors may run on a canvas of love.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

— Henry David Thoreau

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

— Steve Coleman

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

— Paul Cezanne

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

— Andy Serkis

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

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

— Dan Brown

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

— Anonymous

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you…

— Victoria Moran

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the…

— Ron Moody

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality…

— Wilferd Peterson

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

— Charles Saatchi

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

— Martin Scorsese

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a…

— Feist

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint…

— John Baldessari

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not…

— Jarod Kintz

“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why…

— Alok Vaid-Menon

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just…

— Jake Owen

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that…

— Caio Fonseca

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm…

— Richard Grieco

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and…

— Asger Jorn

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the…

— Chris Albrecht

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their…

— Bill Bonner

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…

— James Keller

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over…

— Mark Ryden

Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread…

— Rajneesh

Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if…

— Mark Ryden