I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. — Peter Max
Life is a blank canvas; you decide what to paint on it. — Mexican Proverbs
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. — Voltaire
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. — Graham Hill
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. — Henri Matisse
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye
A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities. — Franklin Carmichael
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. — Keith Richards
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. — Leonardo da Vinci
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski
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. — Osho
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. — Leopold Stokowski
Short Canvas Quotes
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera
God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. — T. D. Jakes
An empty canvas is full. — Robert Rauschenberg
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls. — Meher Baba
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. — Edvard Munch
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. — Cheryl Richardson
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. — Camille Pissarro
Canvas Image Quotes
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Empty Canvas Quotes
No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces. — Sarah Kay
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 — Wassily Kandinsky
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms. — Charlotte Bronte
Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint you can on it.
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's. — George Gilder
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. — Frank Herbert
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. — Dane Cook
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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 — Lewis H. Lapham
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. — Julius Lester
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged. — Wassily Kandinsky
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes. — Ragnar Tørnquist
Blank Canvas Quotes
Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines. — Tim Urban
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue. — Richard Diebenkorn
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. — Arthur Lowe
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen
The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else. — David LaChapelle
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted. — Rabindranath Tagore
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. — Maddie Ziegler
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas? — Mark Vonnegut
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. — Jake Owen
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. — Kai Greene
I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. — Leonid Afremov
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. — Swami Vivekananda
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. — Steve Prefontaine
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. — Elbert Hubbard
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. — Harold Rosenberg
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. — David Wolfe
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. — Edouard Manet
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. — Rudolph Valentino
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it. — Joan Miro
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. — Willem de Kooning
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. — Louise Hay
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me. — Dave Navarro
Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world. — John Constable
I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas. — Charles M. Schulz
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. — Roy Lichtenstein
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci
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. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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. — Shepard Fairey
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. — Vincent Van Gogh
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