Canvas Quotes - Page 5

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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

I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas.

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

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

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

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

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

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

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

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.

You should treat your body like a canvas.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

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

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.

No canvas absorbs colour like memory.

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.

The french fry is my canvas.

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

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

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

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