Add Quote by Camille Pissarro

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

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

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

— Rolf Harris

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

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

— Paul Simonon

It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

— Pablo Picasso

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

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan