You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.