#canvas

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?' ↗

— Albert Finney

#blank canvas #canvas #down #front #gregarious

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#book #boundaries #canvas #color #crossed

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#creating #even #feel #fiction #filmmaking

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. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#canvas #draw #express #feel #flatter

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

#certain #empty #far #living #pictures

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. ↗

— Danny Kaye

#canvas #great #life #life is a #paint

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

#area #artist #artists #becomes #canvas

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

#canvas #great #paint #picture #small

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

#box #calf #canvas #cow #fastened

A blank canvas is so abstract that only imagination can fill it. But wait! Don't hang it on the wall like that. It's upside down.

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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #art