Arena Quote by Harold Rosenberg

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

— Jackson Pollock

“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an…

— Harold Rosenberg

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to…

— Jose Parla

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

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

— Philip Guston

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value-…

— Harold Rosenberg

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of…

— Donald Judd

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to…

— Richard Diebenkorn