Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of… — Stephen Shore
You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart… — Frida Kahlo
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. — Alfred Sisley
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women… — Rudolph Valentino
Every canvas is a journey all its own. — Helen Frankenthaler
I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's… — Lee Krasner
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the… — J. Cole
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult… — Asger Jorn
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. — Stephanie Perkins
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. — Garry Trudeau
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new… — Scott McCloud
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a… — Lillian Hellman
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as… — Franz Kline
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary… — Richard Diebenkorn
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas,… — Mirka Mora
God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. — T.D. Jakes
If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or… — Robert Ruark
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, — Andrew Davidson
Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in… — Ian K. Smith
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. — Carl Jung
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding… — Eric Fischl

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