Canvas Quotes - Page 2

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

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

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

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.

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

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

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

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

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.

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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