Canvas Quote by El-P

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what…

— Claes Oldenburg

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

— David Linley

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

— Diane Warren

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to…

— Willem de Kooning

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

— Damien Hirst

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

— Jeremiah Brent

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

— Twyla Tharp

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you…

— Joe Bradley