Blank Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object;…

— Frank Stella