Canvas Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

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.

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

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

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.

An empty canvas is full.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

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.

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.

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.