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
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 think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,… — Lindsey Buckingham 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
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he… — Jacob Lawrence 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
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
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
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.” — Léon RocheBlance 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
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
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
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
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
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
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to… — Duncan Jones 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
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
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
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
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
