Canvas Quote by Giorgio Vasari

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The idea which…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Robert Henri

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

At Venice, there is always this sense of the world coming together for art.

— Michele Lamy

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the…

— Edvard Munch

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

— Philip Guston