Canvas Quotations

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.

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

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

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

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

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

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

I get up at 7:30. I grab a canvas bag and go out. I say hello to the people in the supermarket and liquor store. I buy the 'New York Times.' I go to the beach and think about characters and plot.

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

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.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

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

An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

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

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

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

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!

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

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

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

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

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.

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.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

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.

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

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.

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

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

By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

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

Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

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

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Yahoo! has clearly established itself as the go-to destination for big events and breaking news, and we are focused on providing the best digital canvas for the world's greatest storytellers to create, develop and showcase their visions.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

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

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

Modern-day access has completely changed how we talk about and think about the frontier of the cosmos. This is a modern-day incarnation of what used to be a team of artists who would sit there with a canvas and sort of paint up something that was described to them, to be photographed and put in the sky. This is a new generation of the representation of the frontier of science.

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

I can envision the finished painting before I start. I read occasionally about an artist who says I sit before my canvas and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't believe that.

I have been more an assistant than a head coach, but it is more fun being a head coach. It is more agony, too. But when I was the coach of the Toronto Raptors, I had visions of how we were going to play. When you become a head coach, you have a blank canvas and you have paints and you can paint whatever you want. As an assistant coach, you make suggestions.

From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines that have since folded, such as Musical America and High Fidelity. During the last year of his life, I would come to the studio, and he would arrange a corner for me with a canvas and paints. I don't think that I saw him paint. He didn't allow anyone to watch him. That was his own private affair.

'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.

We're not going to tell you when they break out. There is a larger canvas here, and it's longer than a season. It stretches to two and three.

Our town was rigid in many ways, in terms of the uniformity of things, the colors of skin, the makes of cars, the lushness of the lawns, but on top of that it was sort of a blank canvas so-and again, I guess this is true of any child-I was ready to quickly accept the sudden and total substitutions of all I knew to be true.

Playing in those old canvas Converse shoes was unreal. I don't see how they did it. Al (Shearer) tried to make a move on the court and broke his ankle.

I was here when it hit, so about 6 in the morning, I hear something almost like an explosion. I looked out and I saw the canvas and it was just mind-boggling, how part of that could be on the back part of the grandstand.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

You know the old saying, 'Don't let a guy hang around if you have a chance to knock him out.' They had a chance knock us out the entire second half of the season and they haven't done it yet. Maybe, we'll bounce back off the ropes, get off the canvas and win this thing.

We'll get there the day before and do some promotional work regarding our features. We'll get together and figure out how we're going to do the promotions. But everything is a blank canvas right now.

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

We are considering naming chairs after distinguished Indians. The research center will look at a broad canvas of research on all aspects of India.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

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

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

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

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

The porcelain is like a canvas to us who paint.

We have a chance to do some things here that quite frankly don't exist anywhere else in baseball, ... Namely, the support of an owner that has the trust and confidence in us to say you guys tell me, you guys chart the course, you guys tell us where we need to go and how we need to get there. That's exciting. It's like having a blank canvas if you're an artist and letting your imagination run wild.

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

We choose a canvas based on the specific work. There are split-hair types, but we have a sense of what will accentuate the artist?s vision.

Coming from an area where there is harsh winter conditions, my strong feeling is that an election should be held when the weather conditions are such that you can canvas properly, that means the fall or the spring.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

I very quickly discovered photography suited me better - somehow I could get things to work on film, that simply did not look right canvas or paper.

I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

Presently the assistance is limited in civil areas. But talks are on to expand the canvas of the agreement by providing assistance to the Indian side by including military support to India.

So, we know what it takes to get off the canvas and dust yourself off and get going again, regardless of anything that comes about. We know how to stay focused on the goal.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive need to keep this in mind. To aim for lofty literature instead of aiming for a good story with real characters who grow and develop and a setting that's brought to life is... like putting the varnish on the canvas first.

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

Do I fear for Roy's safety? Absolutely. How could you watch him lie still on the canvas for such a long time after getting knocked out by Glen Johnson, watch his feet quiver like that, and not be concerned? He couldn't be any worse than he was against Glen Johnson. I don't rule out that he could beat Antonio Tarver. I just don't think it's worth taking the risk. I would prefer not to see him get hit in the head again.

Do I fear for Roy's safety? ... Absolutely. How could you watch him lie still on the canvas for such a long time after getting knocked out by Glen Johnson, watch his feet quiver like that, and not be concerned? He couldn't be any worse than he was against Glen Johnson. I don't rule out that he could beat Antonio Tarver. I just don't think it's worth taking the risk. I would prefer not to see him get hit in the head again.