Bangs Quote by Anthony Caro

When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it…

— Richard Serra

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

— Paul Simonon

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't…

— Anne Truitt

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

— Myfanwy Pavelic

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've…

— Ridley Scott

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes…

— Jackson Pollock

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

— Emil Nolde

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want…

— T. Allen Lawson

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to…

— Jose Parla

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare…

— Claes Oldenburg