Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. — Paul Simonon
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don,… — Diana Quick
Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half… — Tom Yawkey
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was… — Hannah Kent
I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys… — Christian Scott
Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day. — Crescent Dragonwagon
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece… — Henry Petroski
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions… — Daniel Boulud
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. — Danny Kaye
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas… — Sam Mendes
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating. — James De La Vega
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At… — Gary Zukav
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich… — Sean Scully
Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination. — Moliere
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. — Danny Kaye
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. — Stephen Wright
No canvas absorbs color like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. — Henry David Thoreau

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