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This world is but a canvas to our imagination. -- Henry David Thoreau
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. -- Paul Cezanne
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. -- Edward Steichen
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. -- Peter Max
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. -- Cleo Moore
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
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
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? -- Pat Morita
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. -- Jackson Pollock
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. -- Terry Brooks
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -- Leopold Stokowski
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. -- Donald Trump
I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic. -- Jason Wu
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. -- Pharrell Williams
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
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
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
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. -- Ed Koch
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. -- Rudolph Valentino
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. -- Arthur Lowe
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. -- Ron Moody
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. -- Willem de Kooning
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
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
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there. -- Paula Rego
An empty canvas is full. -- Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. -- Danny Kaye
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. -- Patrick Duffy
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. -- Edvard Munch
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. -- Camille Pissarro
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. -- Ron White
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
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. -- Vanna Bonta
As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark. -- Gerard Way
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. -- Morag Joss
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
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
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. -- Gary Zukav
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas. -- Louise L. Hay
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. -- Oscar Wilde
I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. -- Pippa Middleton
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd. -- Hannah Kent
A canvas is never empty. -- Robert Rauschenberg
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. -- Robert Aris Willmott
The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas, -- Nam June Paik
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. -- Stephanie Perkins
You make the rarest canvas, love -- Madeline Miller
The french fry is my canvas. -- Ray Kroc
My favorite color on canvas is nudity. -- Jarod Kintz
A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Light is my brush. Film is my canvas. -- Steve Coleman
Every canvas is a journey all its own. -- Helen Frankenthaler
You should treat your body like a canvas. -- Theophilus London
Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas. -- Richard Schmid
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. -- Rene Magritte
Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas. -- Mark Hewer
A canvas is an arena in which to act. -- Jackson Pollock
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. -- Stephen Sondheim
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. -- Keith Richards
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. -- T. D. Jakes
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. -- Robin Sharma
I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas. -- Matthew Lawrence
I advance all of my canvas at one time. -- Paul Cezanne
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. -- Sara Blakely
The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life. -- Jada Berglund
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas. -- Richard Paul Evans
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence. -- Carl Jung
I just get excited... like a painter with a blank canvas. -- Kenny Florian
Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. -- Ambrose Bierce
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. -- Okakura Kakuzo
In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that. -- Alice Lowe
The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth. -- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Today is a new canvas, paint it with all your favorite colors. -- Anum Sattar
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas. -- Bibhu Mohapatra
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. -- Charles Dudley Warner
The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. -- Malcolm Mclaren
An empty canvas is a living wonder ? far lovelier than certain pictures. -- Wassily Kandinsky
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. -- Luhraw
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes. -- Ragnar TÃ¸rnquist
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. -- Claude Monet
With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. -- Drake
We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas. -- Bernie Glassman
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. -- Paul Simonon
Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night". -- Rabindranath Tagore
You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well. -- Dave Ramsey
I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let's fill that with sound. -- Trent Reznor
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. -- Robert Rauschenberg
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. -- Alfred Sisley
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it. -- Danny Kaye
You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. -- Cheryl Richardson
[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature. -- Trip Hawkins
Retirement with its open canvas, is an especially opportune time to cultivate expanded experiences. -- Timothy McIntyre
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. -- Brian Herbert
On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something" -- Scott Hastie
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did -- Diego Rivera
When the face in the mirror doesn't please you, turn it into a canvas. -- Tablo
I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas -- Damon Hill
The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint. -- Bill Johnson
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. -- John Constable
You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing. -- Charlize Theron
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. -- Amit Ray
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. -- Anne Stevenson
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. -- Graham Hill
Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? -- Paul Gauguin
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. -- Arthur Smith
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. -- Walt Disney
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. -- John F. Carlson
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting. -- Swami Satchidananda
Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. -- Lauren Hammond
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas. -- Pablo Picasso
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. -- Keith Richards

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