Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That… — Annie Dillard
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of… — Henry David Thoreau
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The… — Louis L'Amour
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanityâ€“awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to… — Janet Fitch
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a… — Khaled Hosseini
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or… — Alfred de Vigny
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… — Vincent Van Gogh
I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for… — Jerry Spinelli
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. — Oprah Winfrey
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death â€” this infantile fixation of mine â€” was, at that moment, overwhelming. I… — Ingmar Bergman
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color… — Jason F. Wright
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the… — David Wroblewski
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -… — Charles Baudelaire
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat… — Oscar Wilde
Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world.… — Alan Moore

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