Memorable Canvas Quotes

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"The canvas is the space to execute your own vision."
Ravi Shankar
"A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places."
Paul Gardner
"The painter tries to master color; the color tries to master the painter."
Henri Matisse
"Every brush stroke is a testimony of life and its beauty."
Nina Campbell
"In every work of art, the spirit of the time must be recaptured."
Bertolt Brecht
"A canvas is like a service to a composer; it has to be filled with the most beautiful melodies."
Giorgio Morandi
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies; a painter's perspective is timeless."
Francis Bacon
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"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
Pablo Picasso
"The painter must enclose himself within his experience, and do his best to be in it."
Henri Matisse
"Every human is an artist."
Joseph Beuys
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
Gustav Klimt
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Each artist must choose between honesty and decorum."
Kurt Vonnegut
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James Whistler
"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."
Robert Motherwell
"It is the painter, not the paint, that produces the painting."
Theodore Robinson
"The canvas is the door to the unseen world."
Gustave Courbet
"A painting is a sea of thoughts."
Honoré de Balzac
"The painter tries to master the strength of colors, the delicacy of shades, and the profoundness of forms."
Henri Matisse
"The best artist has no concept that a marble block does not contain ideas."
Michelangelo
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"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
Salvador Dalí
"I am an artist... I am here to create, to push boundaries, to abolish limitations."
Marina Abramović
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels."
Pablo Picasso
"The more I paint, the more I am convinced that I cannot be anything but a painter."
Paul Cézanne
"A picture is worth a thousand words; a canvas is worth a thousand feelings."
Catherine Doucet
"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real."
Lucian Freud
"Every painting tells a story; it's our job to interpret it."
John Paul Caponigro
"A canvas is never empty; it is always full of possibilities."
Michael Samson
"The canvas is where thoughts become tangible, emotions become colors, and dreams become strokes."
Barbara Januszkiewicz
"Your canvas is a reflection of your heart."
Joan Miro
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line."
Anonymous
"A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience."
Mark Rothko
"The canvas is a way to express what is inside you."
Yayoi Kusama
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"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
Robert Rauschenberg
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
César Aira
"The painter tries to master colour, and colour has a way of mastering the painter."
Paul Cézanne
"You don’t make art, you find it."
Pablo Picasso
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
Pablo Picasso
"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."
Edward Hopper
"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing."
Gerhard Richter
"What matters is not what we see but what we make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
Anna Freud
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"Art is a reflection of the world and the artist’s experience of it."
Toni Morrison
"In every work of art the spirit of the age is revealed."
Max Weber
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."
Paul Klee
"The more I paint, the more I like everything."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Frederick R. Barnard
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain."
Michelangelo
"Every good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
Oscar Wilde
"In every work of art the spirit and the flesh have been united in infinite ways."
Julia Cameron
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Pablo Picasso
"There is no such thing as an original idea."
Pablo Picasso
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Vincent van Gogh
"To paint is to love again."
Henri Matisse
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Albert Einstein
"Every canvas is a journey all its own."
Anonymous
"The canvas is the most magical of places, where imagination turns into art."
Anonymous
"A blank canvas is a state of mind."
Anonymous
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"The painter's canvas is the reflection of his soul."
Anonymous
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The more I paint, the more I realize the necessity of coming to terms with the canvas."
Georges Braque
"A canvas is never empty, only waiting for your imagination."
Anonymous
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature."
Salvador Dalí
"On the canvas of life, every stroke is freedom."
Anonymous
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"The canvas is a ground of possibilities."
Anonymous
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
Vincent van Gogh
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things."
Oscar Wilde
"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings."
Wassily Kandinsky
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself."
Michelangelo
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley
"The greatest artist is the one who has no need to show their work."
Anonymous
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate; it is life intensified, life seen through a different set of lenses."
Arthur Miller
"A work of art is a scream of freedom."
Christo
"There are no rules for creating art, but there are rules for maintaining good taste."
Anonymous
"The canvas is my playground, my art is my spirit."
Anonymous
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