One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
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.
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.
You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'
An empty canvas is full.