Brushes Quote by Mary Heilmann

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

— Carl Schmitt

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right,…

— Donald Judd

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or…

— Daniel Levitin

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in…

— Robert Henri

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

— Paul Simonon

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with…

— Peter Max

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want…

— T. Allen Lawson

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

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

— Igor Babailov

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

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan