Canvas famous quotes

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
-- Adam Young

#Color #Different #Canvas

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
-- Agnes Denes

#Landscape #Lasts #Canvas

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
-- Alfred Sisley

#Painting #Canvas #Problem

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
-- Alice Neel

#World #Canvas #Minutes

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.
-- Alton Tobey

#Doe #Alive #Canvas

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
-- Andy Serkis

#Giving #Acting #Canvas

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
-- Ang Lee

#Chance #Canvas #Film

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Canvas #Violent #Slap

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
-- Arthur Smith

#Artist #Canvas #Glamorous

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
-- Arthur Symons

#London #Canvas #Mist

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
-- Barbara Januszkiewicz

#Art #Jazz #Canvas

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
-- Bibhu Mohapatra

#Creative #Want #Canvas

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
-- Brian Herbert

#Desire #Canvas #Uncertain

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
-- Camille Pissarro

#Add #Firsts #Canvas

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
-- Camille Pissarro

#Jewels #Monsters #Canvas

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.
-- Carolee Schneemann

#Principles #Canvas #Painter

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Funny #Artist #Canvas

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Fun #Vision #Canvas

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Artist #Law Of Attraction #Canvas

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
-- Claude Monet

#Finishing #Arrogant #Canvas

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
-- Dan Brown

#Law #Canvas #Physics

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
-- Diego Rivera

#Art #Agonizing #Canvas

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
-- Don Cheadle

#Artist #Trying #Canvas

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.
-- Dwayne Hickman

#Canvas #Print #Wells

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
-- Edouard Manet

#Real #Believe #Canvas

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
-- Edvard Munch

#Color #Canvas #Remarkable

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.
-- Georges Braque

#Bird #Painting #Canvas

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

#Artist #Canvas #Forget

Every canvas is a journey all its own.
-- Helen Frankenthaler

#Journey #Canvas

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.
-- Henri Matisse

#Space #Canvas #Colour

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
-- Irving Stone

#Self #Design #Canvas

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
-- Irving Stone

#Painting #Canvas #Reason

A canvas is an arena in which to act.
-- Jackson Pollock

#Arena #Canvas

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
-- Jackson Pollock

#Painting #Canvas

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Poultry #Canvas #Painter

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.
-- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

#Worry #May #Canvas

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
-- Joan Miro

#Emotion #Canvas #Born

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
-- Joan Miro

#Firsts #Painting #Canvas

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...
-- John Burroughs

#Winter #Artist #Canvas

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
-- John F. Carlson

#Beautiful #Anxiety #Canvas

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
-- John Mellencamp

#Song #Information #Canvas

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.
-- Kenny Florian

#Mma #Canvas #Excited

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.
-- Lee Krasner

#Alive #Canvas #Breathe

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

#Music #Silence #Canvas

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will
-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Paper #Canvas #Empty

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
-- Lindsey Buckingham

#Canvas #Paint #Form

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
-- Malcolm Mclaren

#Art #Pistols #Canvas

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
-- Marianne Wiggins

#Writing #Language #Canvas

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.
-- Mary Beth McKenzie

#Color #Pieces #Canvas

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.
-- Mary Heilmann

#Lines #Canvas #Painting

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.
-- Matthew Lawrence

#Canvas #Slap

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?
-- Milton Resnick

#Fall #Men #Canvas

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,
-- Nam June Paik

#Rays #Canvas

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.
-- Nell Blaine

#Trying #Canvas #Force

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
-- Norman McLaren

#Art #Canvas #Film

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
-- Okakura Kakuzo

#Artist #Mind #Canvas

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Color #Canvas #Life Is

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 to use.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Preparation #Use #Canvas

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Order #Canvas #Apparitions

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?
-- Pat Morita

#Money #Canvas

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
-- Patrick Duffy

#Art #Dancer #Canvas

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
-- Patrick Stewart

#Sentimental #Canvas #Absurd

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Canvas #Blank

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
-- Peter Max

#Canvas #Paint #Middlemen

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Air #Keyboards #Canvas

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.
-- Philip Guston

#Mean #Kind #Canvas

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.
-- Philip Guston

#Finishing #Links #Canvas

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
-- Pierre Bonnard

#Important #Canvas #Remember

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Clever #Canvas #Enough

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
-- Reed Hundt

#Artist #Giving #Canvas

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
-- Rene Magritte

#Dream #Poetry #Canvas

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.
-- Richard Schmid

#Canvas

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
-- Robert Aris Willmott

#Memories #Canvas #Colour

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
-- Robert Breault

#Art #Ideas #Canvas

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
-- Robert Henri

#Looks #Canvas #Paint

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
-- Robert Motherwell

#Beautiful #Canvas #Empty

An empty canvas is full.
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Canvas #Empty

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Want #Canvas #Empty

A canvas is never empty.
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Canvas #Empty #Materials

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.
-- Rudolph Valentino

#Dream #Canvas #Paint

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
-- Sara Blakely

#Art #Clothes #Canvas

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…
-- Scott Hastie

#Matter #Canvas #Brushes

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
-- Scott McCloud

#Path #Canvas #Infinite

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
-- Scott Weiland

#Song #Writing #Canvas

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 original.
-- Shepard Fairey

#Mean #Canvas #Paint

that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.
-- Stacy Allison

#Sports #Spirit #Canvas

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.
-- Stephanie Perkins

#Canvas #Possibility #Blank

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.
-- Steve Coleman

#Light #Canvas #Film

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
-- Swami Satchidananda

#Mindfulness #Painting #Canvas

When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.
-- Tablo

#Mirrors #Faces #Canvas

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
-- Terry Brooks

#Canvas #Fantasy #Enough

You should treat your body like a canvas.
-- Theophilus London

#Body #Canvas #Should

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.
-- Tiko Kerr

#Courage #Canvas #Paint

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.
-- Trent Reznor

#Sound #Canvas #Scene

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.
-- Trip Hawkins

#Humanity #Canvas #Playstation

An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.
-- Wassily Kandinsky

#Canvas #Wonder #Empty

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...
-- Wassily Kandinsky

#Color #Knives #Canvas

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
-- William Merritt Chase

#Lying #Canvas #Imagine

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
-- William Morris Hunt

#Canvas #Feels #Wells

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri

#Gadflies #Canvas #Masterpiece