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Quotes About Canvas

Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream.
~ L.M. Montgomery
daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.
~ Dominic Smith
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
~ Edvard Munch
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
~ Janet Fitch
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Yet the integrity of the universe is the context in which creativity is best expressed. The canvas does not limit God's creativity but rather celebrates it. The elegant complexity of creation is a beautiful reminder that the creative mind is a disciplined mind, that the creative act is not a struggle to be free of limitations but a demonstration that when we embrace our limitations, creativity has no boundaries.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile.
~ Edward Enninful
My affinity for beef extends into my home life, so you'll notice canvas prints of cows, a cowhide rug and prints of Smithfield meat market.
~ John Torode
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
~ Alfred Sisley
When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created. I am delighted with the captured expressions - from my head and my heart. Their arrival onto canvas is beautiful.
~ Bill Ward
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.
~ Richard Phillips
We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
~ D. B. Weiss
It is a creation of your own mind, not the model. The model is dependent on your idea of her. Your canvas should be a thing created under the influence of her.
~ Robert Henri
We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.
~ Robin S. Sharma
And standing in the middle of the room was Bigfoot. No doubt about it. The guy was huge. Not quite seven feet, but close. Almost to the ceiling. And he was wide. From shoulder to shoulder he looked like four basketballs in a rack in her high school gym. He had fists like Thanksgiving turkeys. He was wearing canvas work pants and a huge black T-shirt. His forearms were battered and sculpted.
~ Lee Child
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
~ Bob Hope
By comparison with such lives, our days were inconsequential indeed, and yet even though our canvas was small, still we could paint a masterpiece—as long as we were content for it to be a miniature.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The Value Proposition Canvas functions like a plug-in to the Business Model Canvas and zooms into the value proposition and customer segment to describe the interactions between customers and product more explicitly and in more detail.
~ Steve Blank
Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was dancing on the canvas in the garden; oöd men pushing young girls backwards in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners - and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo of the traps.
~ Fitzgerald F. Scott
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
~ James De La Vega
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
~ Peter York
Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.
~ Andy Grammer