Artist Quote by Jackson Pollock

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

— Paul Simonon

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

... 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

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

— Pablo Picasso

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

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

— Katherine Bernhardt

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

— Igor Babailov

I've been painting since I was a kid.

— Dan Amboyer

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

— Akiane Kramarik