Quotes and Sayings About Canvas
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There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
-- Adam Young -
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
-- Agnes Denes -
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
-- Alfred Sisley -
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.
-- Alice Neel -
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.
-- Alton Tobey -
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
-- Andy Serkis -
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
-- Ang Lee -
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
-- Anne Stevenson -
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
-- Arthur Smith -
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
-- Arthur Symons -
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
-- Barbara Januszkiewicz -
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
-- Bibhu Mohapatra -
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
-- Brian Herbert -
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
-- Camille Pissarro -
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
-- Camille Pissarro -
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.
-- Carolee Schneemann -
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
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.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
-- Claude Monet -
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
-- Dan Brown -
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
-- Diego Rivera -
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
-- Don Cheadle -
The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.
-- Dwayne Hickman -
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 -
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
-- Edvard Munch -
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.
-- Georges Braque -
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
-- Georges Rouault -
Every canvas is a journey all its own.
-- Helen Frankenthaler -
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.
-- Henri Matisse
