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452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and… — Georges Braque
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own… — Georges Braque
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? — Paul Gauguin
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,… — Claude Monet
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet
I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going… — Claude Monet
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. — Salvador Dali
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but… — George Lucas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... — David Hockney
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends. — David Hockney
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get… — Willem de Kooning
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. — Okakura Kakuzo
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according… — Joshua Reynolds
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. — Damien Hirst
I advance all of my canvas at one time. — Paul Cezanne
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in… — John Constable
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas… — Walter Sickert
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that,… — Eugene Delacroix
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the… — William Merritt Chase
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my… — William Hogarth
Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of… — Maurice de Vlaminck
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. — Martin Scorsese

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