Canvas Quote by Jackson Pollock Download Open image “I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.” — Jackson Pollock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canvas Painting
I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. — Katherine Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me. — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
