Artist Quote by Nelson Shanks

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

— Paul Simonon

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've…

— Ridley Scott

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It…

— Albert Oehlen

“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here,…

— David Cobley

I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same…

— Chloe Zhao

“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick…

— James A. Murphy

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can…

— Giorgio Vasari

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best…

— Seth Godin

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic…

— Wyndham Lewis

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I…

— David Lynch

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman