Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles,… — Bridget Riley
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience… — Bridget Riley
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. — Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands… — Wassily Kandinsky
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. — Brian Herbert
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. — Malcolm Mclaren
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe… — Swami Vivekananda
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life… — Lindsey Buckingham
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is… — Stanley Kubrick
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing… — Unknown Author
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one… — David A. Bednar
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the… — Roy Lichtenstein
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal… — William Rothenstein
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must… — Henri Matisse
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. — Camille Pissarro
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious… — Camille Pissarro
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single… — Edouard Manet
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin… — Dave Navarro
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a… — Edwin M. Stanton

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