Canvas Quotes

• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Remarkable, Has Beens

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

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

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• 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

  Sentimental, Absurd, Should

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• 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

  Real, Believe, Figures

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Artist, Paint

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

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• 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.

  Michael Ironside

  Art, College, Would Be

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• 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.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Who I Am, Play

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• 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

  White, House, Littles

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Keyboards, Paint

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 10, 2012

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• An empty canvas is full.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Empty, Empty Canvas

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• Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Business Deals, People

  Trump: The Art of the Deal ch. 1 (1987)

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• 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

  Paint, Form, Process

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• 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

  Jewels, Monsters, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Breathing, Bags, Necks

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• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Graham Hill

  Art, Track, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Print, Wells, Closest

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

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Hypnosis, Film

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

  Peter Max

  Paint, Middlemen, Knows

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2011

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Blank, Fine

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• 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

  Real, Book, Color

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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• 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

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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