Black Canvas Quotes

#1. The darkness is like a black canvas punctured by a blunt knife, with beams of light peeking through.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.

Jackson Pollock

#3. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

Stephen King

#4. People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

Franz Kline

#5. A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother ... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

Niecy Nash

#7. Above us, the sky was an endless expanse of velvety black, with millions of stars spreading like glittering diamonds spilled across the dark canvas.

Sara B. Larson

#8. Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room.

Kelsey Sutton

#9. Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

R.D. Laing