Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who… — William Dobell
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. — Louise Hay
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is… — Rajneesh
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. — Graham Hill
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw… — Arthur Lowe
With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in… — Belinda Carlisle
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we… — Maya Angelou
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to… — John Szarkowski
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… — Anne Lamott
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face.… — Cindy Sherman
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles… — Carolee Schneemann
My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the… — Tom Hiddleston
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink… — Joseph Fiennes
If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could… — Rainn Wilson
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. — Man Ray
Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy… — Larry Holmes
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread… — Unknown Author
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. — Keith Richards
I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20… — Martin Scorsese
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore
Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing… — Tamera Alexander
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul. — Amit Ray
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,… — Alexander MacLaren

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