Canvas Quotes

Canvas Quote of the day

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

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

You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

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

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

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

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

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.

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

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

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

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 put on this canvas.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

An empty canvas is full.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

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.

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

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.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

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.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

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

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

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

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.