Canvas Quotes · Page 8

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

— The Forgotten

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

— Sara Blakely

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

— Kanye West

“Life is a great big canvas,and you should throw all paint you can on it……”

— Danny Kaye

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

— Anne Stevenson

“Description is the color in the canvas of your story.”

— M. Kirin

“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

— Jenim Dibie

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

— Patrick Duffy

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

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

I am but a blank canvas, because everyone interprets you in a different way, and I think that's quite nice.

— Davina McCall

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space.…

— Stephan Pastis

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose…

— Louise Hay

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth,…

— Ron Finley

[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience…

— Anton Webern

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had…

— Susanna Kaysen

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather…

— Harold Rosenberg

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to…

— Steven Pressfield

“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

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These…

— Ezra Miller

Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of…

— Eliza Bennett

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in…

— Martin Scorsese

Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our…

— David A. Bednar

I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to…

— John Constable

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with…

— Stephen Shore

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For…

— Marc Jacobs

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is…

— Frank Stella

I try to kind of come at everything as a blank canvas.

— Jacob Elordi

“This life is your canvas; what will you make it?”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Life was indeed a canvas of colors and it gave various hues at different points of time.”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

— Swami Satchidananda

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

— Dave Ramsey

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

— John Constable

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

— Malcolm Mclaren

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

— Yves Klein