And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. – Cleo Moore
I write on a visual canvas, ‘seeing’ a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I’m a visual junkie. – Marianne Wiggins
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. – Feist
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. – Pierre Bonnard
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store. – Maiara Walsh
I love ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas. – Jeff Nichols
I’ve always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It’s so inherently chic. – Jason Wu
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
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. – John Dyer
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw… bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating. – James De La Vega
The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation – it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile. – Satya Nadella
I’m a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don’t look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas. – Reggie Lee
I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman. – Peter Max
I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I’m doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It’s like capturing lightning in a bottle. – Richard Grieco
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. – Reed Hundt
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. – Paul Mellon
I’m half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I’ve very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas. – Sophia Myles
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
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas… when you actually do something physical. – Twyla Tharp
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. – Sam Mendes
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
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. – Scott Weiland
By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you’d no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art. – Victoria Moran