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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.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

Quotes by Katherine Ryan

I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

Quotes by Jason Wu

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Quotes by Jackson Pollock

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Quotes by Garry Trudeau

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

Quotes by Feist

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Quotes by Edward Steichen

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.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

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

Quotes by Dwayne Hickman

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

Quotes by Don Cheadle

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

Quotes by Cleo Moore

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Quotes by Barbara Januszkiewicz

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Quotes by Arthur Smith

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.

Quotes by Arthur Lowe

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Quotes by Anne Stevenson

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Quotes by Andy Serkis

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up...

Quotes by Andrew Lincoln

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Quotes by Alice Lowe

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Quotes by Alfred Sisley

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the main idea behind these canvas quotes?
Most compare a painter's relationship with a blank canvas to other fields entirely, like business planning or a fresh athletic season.
Is boxing mentioned in this topic?
Yes, one quote describes a boxing ring's canvas specifically, noting a choice to train without ropes around it for a deliberate reason.
Do any quotes describe the artist-canvas relationship directly?
One does, comparing the closeness a painter feels toward their canvas to the intimacy a filmmaker feels toward their own film.
Is a new canvas always described as intimidating?
Not necessarily — one comparison treats starting fresh the same way an athlete would treat the start of another season, more opportunity than threat.
What topic pairs well with Canvas quotes?
Our Artist quotes cover the broader creative mindset behind picking up a brush in the first place.

One quote even brings the canvas into the boxing ring, showing how far the word stretches beyond painting. Pair this with our Art and Blank quotes.