Canvas Quote by Camille Henrot

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

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

— Paul Simonon

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction…

— Kehinde Wiley

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and…

— Ryan McGinness

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

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

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going…

— Pablo Picasso

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

— Carl Schmitt

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding…

— Edward Hopper