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Henry David Thoreau Quote: 'This world is but a canvas ...'

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.


Voltaire
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
Al Gore
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
Cam
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The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
Conrad Anker
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.


Peter Max
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.


Sara Blakely
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.


Jackson Pollock
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
JR
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My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very fine and my skin is incredibly fair and my hair is quite dark, and that's very unusual.
Andrea Riseborough
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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
Arthur Smith
The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.
Katherine Paterson
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And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.


Cleo Moore
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The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.


Stanley R. Jaffe
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.


Andy Serkis
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Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
Bob Ross
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The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.
Satya Nadella
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You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
Pharrell Williams
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.


Ursula K. Le Guin
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.
Amy Adams
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I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Steven Saylor
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