Canvas
A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
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Canvas Quotations
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
Albert Finney
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
Sophia Bush
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper
Canvas Translations
canvas in French is canevas
canvas in German is Segel, Zelttuch, Segel-
canvas in Italian is stoffa
canvas in Spanish is lona, pa o
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