No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.
Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).
I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.
At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is. " I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas. " At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is. " I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas. "
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
You should treat your body like a canvas.
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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!