Blank canvas Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

— David Luiz

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

— Claude Monet

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it…

— Philip Guston

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

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

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

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

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi