Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort… — Prabal Gurung
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if… — Michael Ironside
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and… — Camille Pissarro
I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas. — Matthew Lawrence
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the… — Peter York
The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well. — Dwayne Hickman
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be… — Robert Breault
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest… — Peter Dobereiner
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and… — Agnes Denes
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to… — James Whistler
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust… — Mark Twain
It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas… — Pablo Picasso
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to… — Pablo Picasso
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — Pablo Picasso
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — Pablo Picasso
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial… — William Cowper

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