Canvas Quotes

452 Canvas quotes by 358 unique authors

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember… — Serj Tankian
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. — Bob Ross
I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound. — Trent Reznor
If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be… — Shepard Fairey
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has… — John Millington Synge
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When… — Thomas Kinkade
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. — Georges Rouault
Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last… — James Toney
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn… — Kai Greene
It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. — Scott Weiland
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. — Charlize Theron
A canvas is an arena in which to act. — Jackson Pollock
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give… — Henri Matisse
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what… — Thomas Dreier
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — Vincent Van Gogh
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same… — David Allen
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your… — Al Stewart
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of… — Gary Zukav
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...… — Steven Pressfield
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture. — Winston Churchill
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the… — Mark Rothko

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