Canvas Quotes

• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Canvas

• Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Model

• Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

  

  Paul Mellon
  • Final
  • Drawings
  • Immediacy

• 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
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Canvas

• My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • Canvas

• I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Different
  • Black
  • Painting

• Fashion doesn't boost my confidence - rather, it provides a canvas to express or reflect it and whatever is influencing me in my life at the moment.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• Impressionism was the beginning of a cult devoted to the material on the canvas – the actual pigment..

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Beginning
  • Canvas

• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  

  John Updike
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Hope

• The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. 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
  • Life
  • Future
  • Band

• Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Today
  • Black
  • Silence

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

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Important
  • Remember
  • 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.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Alone

• If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Fun
  • Opportunity
  • Learning

• Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Control
  • Design
  • Painting

• That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Canvas

• A lot of people think technology is a solution, but it's really just a canvas for your work. It can make good things amazing and bad things terrible. Facebook allows you to have access to mass audience really quickly if you do creative really well.

  

  David Droga
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Paint
  • Canvas
  • Broadcaster

• I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

  

  Frida Kahlo
  • Mind
  • Canvas

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

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Canvas
  • Painted
  • Drew

• Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Time
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Beautiful
  • Color
  • Red

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

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Canvas

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

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Great
  • Small
  • Picture

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