Quotes about Canvas

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Votes: 4

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Votes: 4

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Votes: 4

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. Votes: 4

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Votes: 4

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. Votes: 4

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? Votes: 3

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Votes: 3

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. Votes: 3

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Votes: 3

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. Votes: 3

I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic. Votes: 3

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. Votes: 3

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method. Votes: 3

Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there. Votes: 3

An empty canvas is full. Votes: 2

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. 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. Votes: 2

Every canvas is a journey all its own. Votes: 1

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. Votes: 1

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Votes: 1

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas. Votes: 1

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Votes: 1

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. Votes: 1

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Votes: 1

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. Votes: 1

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. Votes: 1

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider. Votes: 1

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Votes: 1

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time. Votes: 1

Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece...? Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt. Votes: 1

I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. Votes: 1

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. Votes: 1

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Votes: 1

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. Votes: 1

People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. Votes: 1

A canvas is never empty. Votes: 0

The french fry is my canvas. Votes: 0

You make the rarest canvas, love Votes: 0

No canvas absorbs colour like memory. Votes: 0

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas, Votes: 0

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. Votes: 0

A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas. Votes: 0

My favorite color on canvas is nudity. Votes: 0

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas. Votes: 0

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas. Votes: 0

You should treat your body like a canvas. Votes: 0

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. Votes: 0

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas. Votes: 0

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. Votes: 0

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. Votes: 0

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. Votes: 0

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. Votes: 0

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas. Votes: 0

I advance all of my canvas at one time. Votes: 0

A canvas is an arena in which to act. Votes: 0

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. Votes: 0

This life is your canvas; what will you make it? Votes: 0

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas. Votes: 0

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. Votes: 0

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. Votes: 0

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. Votes: 0

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. Votes: 0

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. Votes: 0

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. Votes: 0

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. Votes: 0

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. Votes: 0

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that. Votes: 0

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth. Votes: 0

Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors. Votes: 0

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Votes: 0

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas. Votes: 0

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. Votes: 0

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes. Votes: 0

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. Votes: 0

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Votes: 0

An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures. Votes: 0

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. Votes: 0

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Votes: 0

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas. Votes: 0

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. Votes: 0

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". Votes: 0

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. Votes: 0

With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. Votes: 0

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. Votes: 0

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well. Votes: 0

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let's fill that with sound. Votes: 0

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. Votes: 0

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it. Votes: 0

Retirement with its open canvas, is an especially opportune time to cultivate expanded experiences. Votes: 0

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint. Votes: 0

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Votes: 0

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature. Votes: 0

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas Votes: 0

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. Votes: 0

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something" Votes: 0

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did Votes: 0

When the face in the mirror doesn't please you, turn it into a canvas. Votes: 0

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. Votes: 0

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. Votes: 0

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. Votes: 0

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. Votes: 0

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. Votes: 0

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. Votes: 0

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? Votes: 0

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece Votes: 0

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. Votes: 0

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. Votes: 0

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Votes: 0

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. Votes: 0

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul. Votes: 0

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with. Votes: 0

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. Votes: 0

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. Votes: 0

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. Votes: 0

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... Votes: 0

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. Votes: 0

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. Votes: 0

The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back. Votes: 0

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. Votes: 0

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well. Votes: 0

It's time to tear up the canvas and start over. It's time for the overhaul of humanity. Votes: 0

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking. Votes: 0

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. Votes: 0

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. Votes: 0

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. Votes: 0

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas Votes: 0

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. Votes: 0

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Votes: 0

Lost every purpose to visit land of dreams, since colors of dance filled the canvas of my reality. Votes: 0

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. Votes: 0

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. Votes: 0

Some of his pieces were quite good. Others-especially when he'd been drinking-looked like he'd accidentally spilled paint on canvas. Votes: 0

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? Votes: 0

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. Votes: 0

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. Votes: 0

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. Votes: 0

The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it. Votes: 0

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... Votes: 0

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. Votes: 0

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now. Votes: 0

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with. Votes: 0

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. Votes: 0

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable. Votes: 0

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. Votes: 0

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. Votes: 0

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. Votes: 0

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. Votes: 0

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. Votes: 0

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. Votes: 0

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. Votes: 0

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. Votes: 0

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. Votes: 0

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. Votes: 0

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing. Votes: 0

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. Votes: 0

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings. Votes: 0

[] marriage is one thing, and love is anotherYou need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques Votes: 0

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. Votes: 0

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. Votes: 0

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. Votes: 0

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. Votes: 0

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. Votes: 0

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. Votes: 0

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back. Votes: 0

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... Votes: 0

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas. Votes: 0

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret, Votes: 0

You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life? Votes: 0

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... Votes: 0

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. Votes: 0

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. Votes: 0

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. Votes: 0

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. Votes: 0

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place. Votes: 0

On the canvas of life, you are the creative painter of your success. Paint your life into a wonderful masterpiece of excellence. Votes: 0

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture. Votes: 0

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. Votes: 0

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. Votes: 0

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. Votes: 0

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. Votes: 0

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession. Votes: 0

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. Votes: 0

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating. Votes: 0

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life. Votes: 0

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done Votes: 0

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life. Votes: 0

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. Votes: 0

I stood before the canvas, admiring what Emma had unleashed. She'd gone back to the one place that would always be waiting for her. Votes: 0

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. Votes: 0

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Votes: 0

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely. Votes: 0

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success. Votes: 0

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. Votes: 0

I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence. Votes: 0

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. Votes: 0

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.... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried. Votes: 0

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are just a pixel in the canvas of the universe. Shifting colours, sometimes green, sometimes blue, sometimes red, and sometimes black, to fit in this grandness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space. Votes: 0

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. Votes: 0

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world. Votes: 0

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas. Votes: 0

Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either. Votes: 0

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver. Votes: 0

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. Votes: 0

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it. Votes: 0

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds Votes: 0

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move. Votes: 0

I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it. Votes: 0

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. Votes: 0

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it. Votes: 0

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns. Votes: 0

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.' Votes: 0

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated Votes: 0

You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does... Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years. Votes: 0

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating. Votes: 0

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial. Votes: 0

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! Votes: 0

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art. Votes: 0

Alec dragged the heavy canvas bag out of the back of the van, dropping it on the sidewalkReady to go. He announcedLets kick some demon butt!Jace looked at him a little oddlyYou alright? Votes: 0

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field. Votes: 0

Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not "decorate" it; she infused it. Votes: 0

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0