Canvas Quotes

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

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?'

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

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

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

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!

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.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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.