Canvas Quotes

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

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.

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.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

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.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

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

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

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

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

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.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

An empty canvas is full.

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

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

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.