Apparitions Quote by Pablo Picasso

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

— Grace Paley

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to…

— Willem de Kooning

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

— Marianne Wiggins

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of…

— Donald Judd

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

I try to kind of come at everything as a blank canvas.

— Jacob Elordi

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.

— Richard Schmid

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

— Pablo Picasso

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture…

— Alberto Giacometti

When I write, there's always an image, sometimes a color attached to what's being created. I am delighted with the captured expressions - from…

— Bill Ward

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

— Steven Pinker