Canvas Quote by Peter Max Download Open image “I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.” — Peter Max ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canvas Canvas Paint Painting
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now,… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time. — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image