Canvas Quotes

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

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

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

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the 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

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

A canvas is never empty.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

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

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

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

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

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

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

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

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

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.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.