Canvas Quote by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without…

— Tamera Alexander

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…

— Sue Halpern

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

— Tony Bennett

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

— Lauren Groff

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you…

— R.A. Dickey

I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same…

— Georg Baselitz

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

— Ellar Coltrane

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

— Pierce Brosnan

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

— Dreezy

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim