Canvas Quote by Bridget Riley

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across the canvas…

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer…

— Jasper Johns

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about…

— William Baziotes

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

— Winston Churchill

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a…

— Joe Bradley

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to…

— Willem de Kooning