Canvas Quote by Alfred de Vigny

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

— Mark Vonnegut

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone…

— Vera Nazarian

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in…

— Anonymous

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

— Stephen Karam

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and…

— Virginia Postrel

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

— Carlisle Floyd

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ...…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

— James Russell Lowell

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid…

— Audrey Niffenegger

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else…

— Catherine Fisher

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.

— Nadeem Aslam