Arena Quote by Jackson Pollock

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

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

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

— Philip Guston

“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

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

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've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

— Trent Reznor

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

“Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.”

— Fennel Hudson

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

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

— Alice Lowe