Canvas Quotes

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

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

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

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

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.

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

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!

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

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.

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

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

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.

With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

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

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.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

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.

People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

The cathode-ray tube will replace 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.

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

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.

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.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

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

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

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

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

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

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

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

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

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

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.