Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. — Donald Trump
People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd… — Sarah Jio
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken… — Vincent Van Gogh
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a… — Sophia Myles
Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome. — Sergio Martinez
Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. — Ambrose Bierce
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. — Stephen Sondheim
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being… — John Updike
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is… — Michael Gungor
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped… — Allison Mackie
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. — Cheryl Richardson
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and… — Oscar Wilde
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... — Andre Maurois
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had… — Pablo Picasso
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.… — Wallace Shawn
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this… — Jacob Lawrence
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas. — Richard Schmid
One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for… — Alessandra Ambrosio
Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking. — Mary Heilmann
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be… — Winsor McCay
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. — Robin Sharma

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