Canvas Quotes - Page 4

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas."

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

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

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

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.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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