Art Quote by Harold Rosenberg

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as…

— Harold Rosenberg

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on…

— Kay WalkingStick

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

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

— John Green

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

— Paul Simonon

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

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

— Elaine de Kooning

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

— Philip Guston

“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

— Jackson Pollock