Canvas Quotes
My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.
Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.
I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.
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?
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
It's time to tear up the canvas and start over. It's time for the overhaul of humanity.
For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.
The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
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 convention.
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.
May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.
Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large canvas and all the details.
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.
When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!
A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas.
Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.
