People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was… — JR Copy Share Image
We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it… — David Droga Copy Share Image
Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings,… — Tom Yawkey Copy Share Image
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He… — James Toney Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back… — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless.… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The mild creaminess of cottage cheese makes it a perfect blank canvas for almost any flavor combination, savory or sweet. Since it's… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint...… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been… — Alessandra Ambrosio Copy Share Image
You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine!… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound.… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
![“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.” quote by Norman Rockwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cc/norman-rockwell-14034_ashamed_the-balopticon-a-machine-that-projects-p_726705.jpg)
