Danny Kaye Quotes

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

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.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I can paint in jail.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

Without freedom there is no art.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

Art for me is the science of freedom.