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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

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed…

— Jacob Lawrence

that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six…

— Stacy Allison

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail…

— Joshua Reynolds

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally… If you think of yourself in terms of a painting,…

— Thomas Dreier

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an…

— Nick Cave

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use…

— Max Beckmann

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and…

— James Keller

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

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

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore