Definition of Canvas

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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

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

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Willem de Kooning

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
Robert Rauschenberg

An empty canvas is full.
Robert Rauschenberg

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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