Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich
Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene… — Prem Rawat
A canvas is never empty. — Robert Rauschenberg
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas.… — Alfred Stieglitz
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the… — Frank Stella
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be… — Giorgio Vasari
Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession. — Anna Deavere Smith
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a… — Joan Miro
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it… — Joan Miro
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. — John F. Carlson
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed… — John F. Carlson
Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds… — Pierre Alechinsky
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely… — Pierre Alechinsky
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable… — Pierre Alechinsky
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come… — Robert Genn

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