Canvas Quotes

452 quotes by 369 authors

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my… — Amy Adams
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work… — John Berger
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. — Pierre Bonnard
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own,… — Vanna Bonta
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new… — Sophia Bush
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable… — Nick Cave
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. — Drake
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? — Pat Morita
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. — Terry Brooks
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which… — Joan Miro
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. — Joan Miro
I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could... — Wassily Kandinsky
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my… — Irving Stone
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera

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