Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. — Louis L'Amour
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. — Anne Stevenson
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint,… — Irving Stone
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and… — Ron Moody
I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me… — Danny Pudi
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you… — Jake Owen
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just… — Albert Oehlen
An empty canvas is full. — Robert Rauschenberg
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used… — Francis Lawrence
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He… — Steve Sabol
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley
The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles… — Duncan Jones
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a… — Gerhard Richter
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They… — Gerhard Richter
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. — Sara Blakely
I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the… — Judy Chicago
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas. — Don Cheadle
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of… — Caio Fonseca

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