Canvas Quotes

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love, Nature, Furnished

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

Work, Art, Winners

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos

Love, Time, Great

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper

Great, Emotions, Force

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

Stand, Fine, Terrible

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Him, Made, House

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Danny Kaye

Life, Great, Big

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper

Funny, Business, Help

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

Music, Silence, Musicians

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart

Everything, Absurd, Transitory

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock

Before, Painting, Stretch

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
Tom Hiddleston

Dreams, Society, Different

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

Big, Chance, Personal

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen

Artist, Paper, Piece

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Edward Koch

Art, Poetry, Big

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max

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

Fear, Thought, Put

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
Rudolph Valentino

Love, Dreams, Women

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner

Great, Small, Artist

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
Joseph Fiennes

Love, Down, Everyone

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
Sophia Bush

Fun, Character, Getting

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
Sara Blakely

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
Damien Hirst

Used, Ideas, Run

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

Artist, Glamorous, Becomes

An empty canvas is full.
Robert Rauschenberg

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Business, Artist, Season

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.
Martina McBride

Love, Fun, Together

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Roberta Flack

Book, Real, Serious

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

Love, Give, Acting

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