Stretched Canvas Quotes

#1. The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that he has forgotten the use he intended to put it to.

Henry Miller

#2. And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.

N.R. Walker

#3. My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Keariene Muizz

#4. Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Henry Petroski

#5. Photography is not something you retire from.

Annie Leibovitz

#6. There were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the strands of a spiderweb.

Stephen King

#7. What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them ... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#8. I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.

Nick Offerman

#9. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Milan Kundera

#10. Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.

Thomas Hughes

#11. If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

Mark Burnett

#12. Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

Susanna Kaysen

#13. LORD BOLINGBROKE, the eighteenth-century political philosopher, said that "history is philosophy teaching by examples." Thucydides is reported to have said much the same thing two thousand years earlier. Jefferson

David McCullough

#14. Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

Nancy Astor

#15. As she'd walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she'd yearned for every night.

Katherine McIntyre

#16. You're not to say or do anything sexual. You will also not swear or be rude to me."
"I often blurt things out before I think. It's not always intentional.

Marita A. Hansen

#17. I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.

Terry Pratchett

#18. History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

Melvyn Bragg