Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I… — William Morris Hunt
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a… — Harold Rosenberg
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political,… — Harold Rosenberg
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. — Robert Motherwell
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in… — Susanna Kaysen
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time… — Alexis Carrel
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. — Steven Saylor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that… — Robert Henri
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back. — Robert Henri
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images… — Reed Hundt
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. — Swami Satchidananda
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. — Charles Saatchi
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. — Julius Lester
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a… — Fernando Botero
I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs,… — Kat Von D
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut
The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success. — Bob Proctor
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat,… — Diane Frolov
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas… — Sue Halpern
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done — Pablo Picasso
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and… — David LaChapelle
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours.… — LeRoy Neiman

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