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- Nov 07, 2020
Canvas Quotes
On blank canvases, art, and starting again.
These canvas quotes draw a comparison between a painter's intimacy with their canvas and an athlete facing a fresh season like a blank slate. Read more in our Artist quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
An empty canvas is full.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
- Intimacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020