Arrogant Quote by Claude Monet

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

— Robert Motherwell

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.

— Laura Dern

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

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

— Gerhard Richter

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

— David Luiz

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

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 think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to…

— Irving Stone

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh