Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting… — Richard Diebenkorn
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. — Robert Genn
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of… — Lawren Harris
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air,… — Wayne Thiebaud
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get… — E. J. Hughes
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that… — E. J. Hughes
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson
I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. — Kenny Florian
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. — Frank Shamrock
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in… — Alice Neel
I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable. — Nell Blaine
You should treat your body like a canvas. — Theophilus London
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation. — John Mellencamp
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his… — Roberta Flack
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams… — Tom Hiddleston
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record… — Edward Hopper
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil… — Edward Hopper
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I… — Ed Koch
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are… — Queen Latifah
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. — Ang Lee

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