Art Quote by Arthur Smith

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

— Philip Guston

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

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

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

— Paul Simonon

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it…

— Philip Guston

“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.”

— L.R.W. Lee

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett