Quotes by Canvas The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. Georges Rouault canvas forget-everything artist Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them. Georges Braque canvas painting bird At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction. Glenn Ligon canvas painting writing At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." Glenn Ligon canvas painting guy Every canvas is a journey all its own. Helen Frankenthaler canvas journey Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary. Henri Matisse canvas colour space ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting. Irving Stone canvas painting reason He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.' Irving Stone canvas design self A canvas is an arena in which to act. Jackson Pollock arena canvas I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Jackson Pollock canvas painting We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush. Jean-Pierre de Caussade canvas worry may What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. Jean-Paul Sartre canvas add adventure When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. Joan Miro canvas painting firsts Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension. Joan Miro canvas born emotion What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. John Burroughs canvas artist winter I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. John Constable canvas six feet I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. John Dyer canvas leaving sometimes In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. John F. Carlson canvas anxiety beautiful 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. John Mellencamp canvas information song For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. Katherine Bernhardt canvas painting half «12345678»
