“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it” —Danny Kaye
Curtains part
Raveling drums roll
Dreams unfurl
I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman —Peter Max
Bolts of fray
Shades of Hudson Bay
Curling toes
I am but a blank canvas, because everyone interprets you in a different way, and I think that’s quite nice —Davina McCall
Threaded bands
Overlapping strands
Warp and woof
An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures —Wassily Kandinsky
Sailcloth bales
Glean the Spanish Main
Reap the deep
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard —Pharrell Williams
Shore awnings
Looming seashell shades
Bloom arrays
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination —Voltaire
Stringy thongs
Bikini swatches
Drape the strand
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams —Rudolph Valentino
Banners wave
Alee as the surf
Leaps the sand
If I’ve learned anything through all of this, it’s that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted – an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning —Craig Sager
Fabric memes
Ephemeral dreams
Seamless seem
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas —Edvard Munch
Beach combing
Water winging it
Hanging ten
Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting —Kerli
Dream canvas
Weaving sand and surf
The Paint Rags
This world is but a canvas to our imagination —Henry David Thoreau
Thus, an artist surfing his halcyon dreams (the Med) from a souvenir beach chair in his atelier on the 49th Parallel North (the Tundra), hangs ten on the blank canvas of December.
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wonderful! must get my paints out again when spring comes!
And your brushes. 🙂
or I might just throw the paint directly 😉 …
Then you’ll need plenty of paint rags. 🙂
Danny Kaye was always encouraging other people to make a big mess, “throw all the paint … throw the pie at the wall … eat chili with your hands …” but he was rarely known to help tidy up after.
So, I have Danny Kaye to thank for my love of throwing pies at the wall and eating chill with my hands, and you to thank, Geo., for wiping up the mess with paint rags.
These are fantastic – all of them! And I’m actually jealous that I didn’t think of “canvas” as a theme for a series of quotes!
❤
David
Maybe you’d thought of it, but the canvas was blank? 🙂
😀
These are such beautiful paintings, inspiring quotes, and poems to make me think. I so enjoyed this post. No favorites – I loved them all. (I think of my poetry as Peter Max thinks of his paintings, which I grew up with and still love.) Thank you for this visual and linguistic adventure.
Thank you immensely, LuAnne. You make it worthwhile. May your holidays be brighter than a Peter Max painting 🙂
Nice !!!
Thank you!
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!