Canvas Quote by Richard Schmid

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a…

— Joan Miro

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

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 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

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

— Dave Ramsey

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to,…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— 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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules…

— Camille Pissarro

... 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