Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a… — William Cowper
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been… — Henri Matisse
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I… — Georgia O'Keeffe
You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour… — Georges Braque
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

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