Canvas Quote by Keith Richards

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that…

— Carl Henegan

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

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each stroke.”

— Melissa Regas

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.”

— Christian Bobin

“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next masterpiece.”

— Ernest Grant

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

— Edward Steichen

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein