Canvas Quote by Francis Bacon

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are…

— Pierre Alechinsky

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Paul Simonon

“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why even bother…

— Alok Vaid-Menon

Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I…

— Lori Earley

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy…

— Harold Town

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

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

— Vincent Van Gogh